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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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