[danso]

Obligatory link to Larry Page's question about Java while getting his PhD at Stanford:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8587697

I consider the ability to perform practical programming a skill of software/computer engineering...In the same way that someone can be brilliant in chemistry and yet have little clue how to perform the kind of chemical engineering needed to efficiently produce chemical reactions...being a great mathematician/computer scientist doesn't necessarily relate to building. It's not that they don't have the intellectual capacity to do it, it's just that building/engineering requires its own experience and field of knowledge.

[jkyle]

He'd have never passed a Google interview. ^_^