[yodsanklai]

> Can you Computer Science without programming?

The bullshitery he's talking about isn't programming, but compiling, installing and setting up various software that are still in an early stage of development and aren't user friendly yet. Just something you have to do but isn't related to programming or research.

Somehow, I agree that an all-around computer scientist has to know how to deal with this, but it's probably not the best way they can spend their time.

[mcguire]

One of the neat things about computer science research is that researcher B's work is frequently based on researcher A's software and A's software is "academic", which means that it actually works on exactly the three examples in A's dissertation.