[EliRivers]

A Shakespearean scholar who doesn't remember any of the works of Shakespeare? Does he have some kind of memory problem? He's spent years of his life examining the works of Shakespeare in detail, reading around the subject, probably watching play after play, travelling to see new interpretations being put on, and he can't quote me a single sonnet? Either he's incompetent, or he has some kind of memory problem.

Now extend to algorithms. I wouldn't hire a programmer like this Shakespearean scholar.

[eli_gottlieb]

The analogy would be perfect if "working programmer" and "algorithms researcher" were the same thing.