> That doesn't sound right to me at all. Modern academia is highly competitive, and career academics typically have long working hours. > If they aren't doing p

> That doesn't sound right to me at all. Modern academia is highly competitive, and career academics typically have long working hours. > If they aren't doing programming, that's likely because it isn't relevant to their job. A theoretical computer scientist is closer to a mathematician than to a typical programmer. This kind of stuff is not useful to be posting where impressionable people (young students) can read it. The truth the majority of academics are managers and delegate hands-on work to postdocs and PhD students. I finished a PhD just last month and I never saw in 4 years anyone on my committee so much as look at code let alone write it (and I was not a theory student). Almost everyone in my cohort would echo this observation.