> Programming is child's play compared to undergraduate mathematics taught in math departments.

One thing you might learn in math is to avoid making overgeneralized statements that you can’t support.

A valid substitution in your statement for “programming” is writing a compiler. And for “undergraduate mathematics taught in math departments”, basic differential calculus.

Yet we regularly teach smart high school students and first-year undergraduates calculus, and almost never try to teach them to write a compiler, contradicting your proposition.

But what do I know? I’m just a dumb programmer. I can’t read your mind, so maybe you had something a little more specific you wanted to say.