Ruven said:
There's one slight flaw in Alan's argument. What I said was:
Both of these cases also illustrate that substantial
amounts of programming knowledge is above the level
of the individual programming language constructs.
This knowledge is NOT general engineering knowledge,
Alan,
You stated:
I believe that the academic establishment rapidly expands to
fill gaps in the research ecosystem. If there was any real need
for the psychology of automobile body welding, someone would be
doing it.
Let me assure that you are dead, 100% wrong. There are a great many
Ruven,
First, let me note that even a factor of 4-5 for differences in programmer
performance is already substantially greater than almost any other human
skill. If one choose a sample of first year college students at the same
university, one would be unlikely to uncover a difference that
There's one slight flaw in Alan's argument. What I said was:
Both of these cases also illustrate that substantial
amounts of programming knowledge is above the level
of the individual programming language constructs.
This knowledge is NOT general engineering knowledge, project
management
