Re:Ask HN: We do CS profs think programming is easy while SE...
by Someone on Monday May 09, 2022 @03:01PM
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Most programming _is_ easy, with ‘just’ a lot of details that have to be tracked precisely.
The CS profs likely are a bit like math profs, in that they leave such picky details as an exercise. Strings are abstracted as sequences of characters, not the relative mess of UTF-8, time runs forward every second, months and years, let alone leap years and leap seconds do not exist, time zones, let alone time zones changing over time, do not exist, etc.
The software engineering profs likely know how much time and effort solving those trivial smaller problems take.
The CS profs likely are a bit like math profs, in that they leave such picky details as an exercise. Strings are abstracted as sequences of characters, not the relative mess of UTF-8, time runs forward every second, months and years, let alone leap years and leap seconds do not exist, time zones, let alone time zones changing over time, do not exist, etc.
The software engineering profs likely know how much time and effort solving those trivial smaller problems take.