Linked by Takuya Murata on Tue 18th May 2004 06:26 UTC
My physics teacher likes to say that physics like to make problems they face look like ones that they know how to solve. A simple harmonic oscillation was one he frequently used in class, as is presumably the case in physics in general.
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if I read this correctly, the author is (perhaps) pointing out the obvious: what goes on in the majority of software houses that crank out copious amounts of code, and what happens in some of the more exciting branches of CS research, is vastly different.
I have no idea if the average software monkey has any clue about "Prolog? AI? Genetic algorithms? Voice recognition? Agents?". They may not, but a lot of us in the research community not only have a clue about this stuff but are using and developing it so it might one day become ubiquitous -- usable by the average programmer. It takes time for a new technology to become usable enough that it may be usable by those who don't necessarily understand it.
Once upon a time a compiler might have been considered something that no-one had a clue about, forcing everyone to code in assembler. However, these days its a fundamental tool to even the most unskilled software developer.
I hope that the standard of commentary at osnews has not been lowered to that of the (apparently) uninformed and/or uneducated. The rest of us deserve more credit than that.