Simply put, what industry rewards is the ability to grind out code. Computational theory and other academics are less necessary than the practical experience of

Simply put, what industry rewards is the ability to grind out code. Computational theory and other academics are less necessary than the practical experience of having written reams of code. Software is more craft than engineering, and anything but a science. The fact that it's taught as a mathematical subject has more to do with university and industrial politics than the demands of the subject matter.