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I've certainly encountered more than one PhD who couldn't program worth anything. Understanding the theory and the practice are different things.

• Jagat 13y ago
  Couldn't agree more. One of my professors wrote a 200 line Matlab code to extract a column from a csv file.
  • thret 13y ago
    I'm sure it was perfectly spaced though.
    • Jagat 13y ago
      It was. A single line of awk/cut would have sufficed.
  • joshdulac 13y ago
    I worked in a university research lab and had more than one PhD student/RA inform me that MatLab destroyed their actual programming skills in other languages.