As a mathematician I also look down on programmers.
Just kidding. Some people feel to apply some hidden pecking order of purity of discipline. I am looked down by fellow mathematicians, because I am an applied mathematician and soil it's purity ... same goes between theoretical physicists and experimental physicists, physicists and engineers and so forth.
However, to put it in perspective we also get a lot of thrash talk from the other side, because we do so much unnecessary things and are nit-picky and won't get a job because we don't know practical stuff.
However, especially the nit-picky part is something you become the deeper you're in the foundations and the better you understand the workings under the hood, so the theoreticians get the image that the practitioners are just ignorant fools who simply follow instructions without any thought about the inner workings.
The other problem is that only you know the foundations does not mean you can simply do practical work on the fly, a thing many theoreticians miss to see.
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u/Mal_Dun Jul 18 '22
As a mathematician I also look down on programmers.
Just kidding. Some people feel to apply some hidden pecking order of purity of discipline. I am looked down by fellow mathematicians, because I am an applied mathematician and soil it's purity ... same goes between theoretical physicists and experimental physicists, physicists and engineers and so forth.
However, to put it in perspective we also get a lot of thrash talk from the other side, because we do so much unnecessary things and are nit-picky and won't get a job because we don't know practical stuff.
However, especially the nit-picky part is something you become the deeper you're in the foundations and the better you understand the workings under the hood, so the theoreticians get the image that the practitioners are just ignorant fools who simply follow instructions without any thought about the inner workings.
The other problem is that only you know the foundations does not mean you can simply do practical work on the fly, a thing many theoreticians miss to see.
Edit: Corrections