in reply to Re: Re: Re: Second rate programmers and my confession
in thread Second rate programmers and my confession
I strongly disagree that you don't understand a problem if you cannot explain it in a few sentences to someone totally unfamiliar with the field, and who has no interest in knowing.
After I graduated, I did a few years of theoretical research at a university. The first nine months I spend studying topology before I could understand some of the problems I was working on. Was I a bad researcher because I won't be able to explain the problems here on this webboard? I don't think so.
If all people who really understood things well all could easily explain things to other people regardless of their level, the quality of education would be much better. I've seen people, top of their field by a large margin, who write very hard to understand papers. That doesn't make them second rate.
Abigail
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Straw men. Re: Re: Second rate programmers...
by Ovid (Cardinal) on Jun 06, 2002 at 14:55 UTC | |
Re^2: Second rate programmers and my confession
by Joost (Canon) on Jul 05, 2006 at 19:15 UTC |