5 For The Price Of 1

One of the main characteristics of a computer science mentality is the ability to jump very quickly between levels of abstraction, between a low level and a high level, almost unconsciously.  Another characteristic is that a computer scientist tends to be able to deal with nonuniform structures — case 1, case 2, case 3 — while a mathematician will tend to want one unifying axiom that governs an entire system.  This second aspect is sometimes a weakness of computer science:  When we encounter a situation that can be explained by one axiom, we might still give it five, because five different rules are no sweat for us.  But we’re at our best in circumstances when no single principle suffices;  then we can handle the discrepancies between different cases very nicely.
—    Donald E. Knuth
From his book:  “Things A Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About“
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