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[Don]

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.