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by jmct
4506 days ago
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Programming is still heavily influenced by research. Modern type systems, concurrent algorithms, compiler frameworks like LLVM, and lots of other great things have come straight out of academic research. I don't understand why the Hacker News community tends to downplay the effect of pure CS research and the programming ability of people in academia. |
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The author of this article, in fact, seems to be a rather accomplished programmer as well as an academic. Here's her "about" page:
http://tagide.com/about.html
When I was in academia, I had the privilege of meeting some people with really impressive programming talent. And some of the pure CS research I saw had some very interesting applications, such as string matching algorithms that could be applied to DNA sequencing. (Of course, there were people who were extremely talented at bullshit too, but the quality of people varies anywhere you go.)