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jester997 • yesterday at 6:01 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

Lawyers would be better suited to argue what programming is because they know logic. There’s not much to algorithms: do this, then do that.

Programmers typically don’t know law outside of which license allows them to get code for free.


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konart • yesterday at 8:30 PM

> There’s not much to algorithms: do this, then do that.

Yeah, and how many of drivers or software engineers can fix their car's engine? Just a few. Even though in priciple there's not much to it.

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KellyCriterion • yesterday at 6:49 PM

a) I have never met a Lawyer who was able to write a single code line

b) I have met Lawyer colleagues who didnt know how build a =SUM() in Excel

So, I doubt....

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