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Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...

(Also it's not really a pyramid, it's a graph; programming languages et al. obviously rely on theoretical computer science, and theoretical CS is a branch of mathematics and as such not limited by the ...