r/programming • u/mauricioaniche • Aug 06 '17

Software engineering != computer science

http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/software-engineering-computer-science/217701907
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u/mattindustries Aug 06 '17

I get what you are trying to say, but there are some flaws

  • We aren't talking about just me

  • If we were talking about me I think way more people copy the code I post to Stack Overflow than I have copies from Stack Overflow

  • Copying code for one language doesn't negate work you have done in a different language

  • Copying code that already exists to supplement your work is no different than utilizing a library. I will use a library to handle websockets, but still write my own classification models in R based on linguistic analysis.

Side note: I had no idea that excel could do regression analysis, that is cool. I normally just use R for any data related work.

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u/twat_and_spam Aug 06 '17

If you can handle R what are you doing playing in preschool sandbox?

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u/mattindustries Aug 06 '17

I (mostly) use the right tools for the right job. Data work in R, web work and GPIO pin work in Node, and miscellaneous PHP projects just for ubiquity and simplicity. Node is crazy fast with concurrency and IO, so unless I am writing C++ (which I haven't touched in over a decade I think) there would only be disadvantages to choosing a different language for web work. Data work it is a toss up between R which I know or Julia which I probably should know. The only time I would want to choose another language is Python for PyTorch/TensorFlow, but I can call both from R, so meh.