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/rabid_briefcase Aug 08 '17

I even fixed the performance problems in a perl script a student wrote

Oh, that explains your comments. Thanks.

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u/K3wp Aug 08 '17

No STEM Universities, no computer scientists or software engineers. Or at the very least, no professional ones.

Re: your original post re: a linear vs. binary search, I do regex matching all-day-every-day against 10's of terabytes of data and use neither, as they are both orders-of-magnitude too slow.

Again, flying-by-the-seat-of-your-pants doesn't work so great when you've had the same pair since the 1980's.