Professors’ unprofessional programs have created a new profession
&gt; <i>Those who do put effort into producing good code risk being seen by their colleagues as time-wasters.</i><p>I wonder how important this cultural factor is. Is there peer pressure among academics to not put effort into learning proper programming?<p>(As an aside, on a personal level it&#x27;s kind of funny reading this because I was hired as a programmer by professor Sten Linnarsson (via a in a &quot;who&#x27;s hiring thread&quot; so through this very website). During the job interview I got the impression he is a very capable programmer but simply has to budget his time.)