True, but the reverse is also applicable: academia most often than not does not get the chance to do anything really complex in a tight schedule; this explains

True, but the reverse is also applicable: academia most often than not does not get the chance to do anything really complex in a tight schedule; this explains what the author says: "Consider that the “data scientist” uses compact languages such as SQL and R. An entire interesting application may fit in one file. " I have seen horrendous, multi-page SQL queries in very large systems.