On 03/29/2011 07:47 AM, Don wrote:
dsimcha wrote:
On 3/28/2011 9:54 PM, jasonw wrote:
Listen kid, you're some biology student, right? You're just coding for fun.
And more importantly, you haven't participated in any long term real world
systems programming projects. This kind of work experience doesn't give you
the competence to evaluate the knowledge and work of people with tens of
years of programming experience under their belt.
You might be terribly smart, but you're missing the point. Can you see what
we are building here? A whole language ecosystem. Andrei has done great work
by attracting competent CS persons in to the community.
While I think some good points were raised here, I find the implication that
biologists and generally non-CS people can't do first rate programming mildly
offensive. Formal education in CS helps especially when doing CS research,
but it's not a requirement for being a "real" programmer. I'm a biomedical
engineering student and primarily write research and hobby code, not
industrial code. Walter's degree is in mechanical engineering and he's one of
the best programmers I can think of. Heck, even Andrei didn't have a formal
degree in CS until recently. (His undergrad, IIRC, is in electrical
engineering.)
I have a physics degree, and have worked in solar photovoltaics for fifteen
years.
I have a degree in "technical training" (dunno proper english term, if any),
specialised in automation. Seems I'm the closer one to CS/programming here ;-)
(while in a highly specialised area) But certainly one of the least competent
in those fields :-( Learning every day, though.
Denis
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