> software written by electrical engineers I mentioned elsewhere in this thread that I did an EE/CS dual degree after having programmed for a long time beforeh

> software written by electrical engineers I mentioned elsewhere in this thread that I did an EE/CS dual degree after having programmed for a long time beforehand. I really don't understand why, but some of the EE-only software I've worked with has been absolutely atrocious. One of my favourite moments in undergrad was in my Digital Communications class. I don't remember exactly what we were doing, but it involved Matlab and some kind of signal decoding. I handed in my assignment and got called in to have a one-on-one with the professor; he was certain that I had cheated and just hard-coded the answers to my assignment instead of actually writing the decoder. Why? Because my code ran instantaneously instead of sitting and grinding for 30+ seconds. What was my secret? I'd seen a couple of triply-nested for loops in the code and decided they could all be accomplished with a matrix multiply instead of doing all of that computation by hand. In the same class, a friend (also an EE/CS dual) and I came up with the dynamic programming solution to the Viterbi decoding problem as well, and again, got taken to task for having a solution that ran too fast. Sigh...