The skilset is similar maybe, but putting it in practice is something else. In your claim you skipped the part where the scientist used his skills to become goo

The skilset is similar maybe, but putting it in practice is something else. In your claim you skipped the part where the scientist used his skills to become good enough to design a good program. As long as that learning process didn't happen, and that takes time, he/she will not be good enough. As such I know excellent scientists which are known and praised in their field and come up with inventive designs. Yet their code to do something as simple as plotting a histogram is a mess.