The first paragraph seems to imply that, to understand recursive algorithms, you need to be young. And rightly so, the software industry is not for old people. Did I get the argument right?
No, he is saying that if you understand recursive algorithms, you should be able to apply that reasoning to reason yourself out of a career on software, since it is a given that most developers will be forced out of engineering by a certain age
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The first paragraph seems to imply that, to understand recursive algorithms, you need to be young. And rightly so, the software industry is not for old people. Did I get the argument right?
No, he is saying that if you understand recursive algorithms, you should be able to apply that reasoning to reason yourself out of a career on software, since it is a given that most developers will be forced out of engineering by a certain age
I didn't get that, what does a software engineer with a basic grasp of recursion have to do with "software science"?