> significant portion of programmers are very smart people who work hard at producing good, generalizable, understandable effective code
Yet this is very different from what GP is talking about: knowledge about the research frontier. Which is OK, programmer and researcher are two different jobs, and much like it isn’t expected from the scientist to write good code (or write code at all), the programmer job is not to be knowledgeable about the state of art in PL theory.
Yet this is very different from what GP is talking about: knowledge about the research frontier. Which is OK, programmer and researcher are two different jobs, and much like it isn’t expected from the scientist to write good code (or write code at all), the programmer job is not to be knowledgeable about the state of art in PL theory.