Future(s) for D.

[Chris via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 24 June 2015 at 13:04:29 UTC, Martin Drašar wrote:
> Dne 24.6.2015 v 14:15 Chris via Digitalmars-d napsal(a):
>> Sure, this smells like a job description tailor made for 
>> someone they already have in mind. However, I wonder what 
>> "experience" means. "Yeah, I've played around with Java and 
>> C++" or "I'm really into the two languages and know them very 
>> well". People who do research for their PhD in computational 
>> linguistics are often _familiar_ with programming languages 
>> but not necessarily to a degree that allows them to write real 
>> world production code, because it is very hard to excel in 
>> programming, data algorithms, NLP and academic research 
>> (literature review, writing the PhD) at the same time.
>
> If you let researchers write production code, you are asking 
> for troubles. And that comes from someone who is doing 
> research, is a programming enthusiast and had programming as a 
> day job for some time.

That's what I mean. You either program or you do research. If you 
do research, all programs are proofs-of-concept (with papers and 
journals in mind).

> If I made such job add, the most important for me would be the 
> ML experience and publication skills. This is something you 
> can't teach in a short time. As for the rest of it - it would 
> be good enough that the candidates would not hurt themselves 
> while using those tools and languages. At least there will be 
> less unlearning to do...
>
> Martin