Perhaps the us and uk differ substantially in academic philosophy Sent from my iPad (excuse the terseness) David A Lee [email protected]
On Oct 12, 2011, at 7:22 PM, Michael Kay <[email protected]> wrote: > > >>> >>> Few of the cs phds I've interviewed could do ANY of the tasks you quote. >>> None had to pass an exam in making programs that actually worked >>> >>> > I have to say my experience is the opposite. I've worked with a great many > software developers who were good at making things, but lacked the education > to discover the theory of how they ought to be made: they were mechanics > rather than engineers. As a result I've seen a lot of people building things > using home-grown invented techniques that were vastly inferior to the state > of the art available from the research literature. Or doing crazy things like > trying to parse XML with regular expressions. You get something that works > most of the time (if you're lucky), but often costs a lot more and performs a > lot worse than if the designers had had a higher level of professional > education. > > Of course that doesn't mean that everyone with a PhD is a good programmer or > designer, but most of those I have worked with have been. > > Michael Kay > Saxonica > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] > http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk
