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Math topics that keep being useful for programming: relations, orders, graphs.

Example: You have plugins with conditions such as “plugin A must run before plugin B“.

– These conditions define a partial order: In general, not every plugin can be “compared” with every other plugin.
– If we want to sort an Array with plugins, we need a total order.
– One algorithm that works with a partial order is topological sorting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topological_sorting