David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> writes: > John Passaniti <john.passan...@gmail.com> writes: > >> Amen! All this academic talk is useless. Who cares about things like >> the big-O notation for program complexity. Can't people just *look* >> at code and see how complex it is?! And take things like the years of >> wasted effort computer scientists have put into taking data structures >> (like hashes and various kinds of trees) and extending them along >> various problem domains and requirements. Real programmers don't >> waste their time with learning that junk. What good did any of that >> ever do anyone?! > > It is my experience that in particular graduated (and in particular Phd) > computer scientists don't waste their time _applying_ that junk.
Question: do you have a degree in computer science? Since in my experience: people who talk about their experience with graduated people often missed the boat themselves and think that reading a book or two equals years of study. Oh, and rest assured, it works both ways: people who did graduate are now and then thinking it's the holy grail and no body can beat it with home study. Both are wrong, by the way. -- John Bokma j3b Blog: http://johnbokma.com/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/j.j.j.bokma Freelance Perl & Python Development: http://castleamber.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
