Timeline for is coding important?
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| Dec 23, 2010 at 6:16 | comment | added | Orbling | @Javier: Could well be, in which case it would be even less clear cut. | |
| Dec 23, 2010 at 1:41 | comment | added | Javier | @JB King, @Orbling: i'd bet that the quote is a translation, so don't overanalyse it literally. | |
| Dec 23, 2010 at 0:57 | comment | added | Orbling | @Robert Harvey: I think @mipadi has the point there, the professor just said "I never code", not that he is incapable. | |
| Dec 22, 2010 at 22:40 | history | edited | JB King | CC BY-SA 2.5 | Clarified a couple of other interpretations to the idiom. |
| Dec 22, 2010 at 22:28 | comment | added | mipadi | @Robert Harvey: The OP's professor didn't say he can't code, just that he doesn't. He could be a theoretical computer scientist who spends most of his time researching. As JB King pointed out, as long as he's not lecturing on, say, compiler design or software engineering, he could very well be experienced and competent within his field. | |
| Dec 22, 2010 at 21:50 | history | edited | JB King | CC BY-SA 2.5 | Clarified answer. |
| Dec 22, 2010 at 21:40 | comment | added | Robert Harvey | English professors should know how to write movie scripts if they are teaching others how to write movie scripts. But all English professors should certainly be capable of writing a very good thesis, if not an actual book. | |
| Dec 22, 2010 at 21:30 | history | answered | JB King | CC BY-SA 2.5 |