Nicholas M Glykos wrote:
<snip>
Too many Ph.D persons (in fields other than Computer Science) assume
that any sort of computer work is something they could do in their
spare time, if they just took the time.
</snip>
Taking your point to its diametrically opposite extreme, I have repeatedly
been told that I should stop writing code because there is no way that the
code I manage to write could possibly compete with what a professional
programmer could have written. They are, of course, absolutely right.
Still, I would not trade the fun (and concurrent training) of solving my
problems in my way with even the most highly optimised, readable and
absolutely professional pieces of code.
I think I've said this before here, but I'll risk it again... Nothing
scares me more than a PhD oceanographer with 2 formal courses in Fortran
in his educational summary...
gerry
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