• Clemens <eriatarka84 gmail.com> Apr 26 2010

Clemens <eriatarka84 gmail.com> writes:

Nick Sabalausky Wrote:

 "retard" <re tard.com.invalid> wrote in message 
 news:hqt94i$2sgv$2 digitalmars.com...
 Fri, 23 Apr 2010 08:57:54 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

 On 04/23/2010 07:00 AM, Clemens wrote:
 (As an aside, I'm generally a bit put off by the hostility towards
 programming language research and theory in the D community. "We don't
 need no stinking theory, we'll just roll our own ad-hoc solution which
 will work much better because ivory-tower academics are completely out
 of touch with reality anyway." Bleh.)


 I hope that trend has been definitively reversed.

 Andrei


 Instead of hostility we now have blissful ignorance. Maybe I should post
 here more often again..


 When the academic researchers keep their work squirreled away in academic 
 circles and written in such a convoluted style that only other long-term 
 ivory-tower residents can get far enough past the language to see the actual 
 meaning, it's a wonder that *anyone* finds it surprising that programmers 
 are ignorant of it.


I have no formal education in computer science, in fact I'm a self-taught
programmer, and I had no problem understanding several papers on Haskell which
I was pointed towards. It might take some dedication in some cases, but as
Andrei pointed out: the problems are hard.

 
 And that's just the researchers that actually *do* know what they're doing. 
 Let's not fool ourselves into thinking that the *majority* of academia 
 actually knows it's head from it's ass (yea, that's right - I've brought it 
 back to hostility).


Oh well. Thanks for proving my point.