Quote from: anunymint on July 10, 2018, 11:40:51 PM

Quote from: aliashraf on July 10, 2018, 11:27:19 PM

Devs don't research! Research sucks.

There have been very prolific programmers who also do important research which they implemented as well:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Stepanov (created the C++ Standard Template Library)

There never was a C++ paper design; design, documentation, and implementation went on simultaneously. Naturally, the C++ front-end
   is written in C++. There never was a C++ project either, or a C++ design committee. Throughout, C++ evolved, and continues to
   evolve, to cope with problems encountered by users, and through discussions between the author and his friends and colleagues

   -Bjarne Stroustrup: An overview of C++. ACM Sigplan Notices, Special Issue. October, 1986
Stepanov went to Stroustrup for his idea regarding generic programming, his colleague in Bell Labs,the same develop-first atmosphere, all the same story.

I'm not against anything called research, my current occupation might be called research. I just don't believe in formal, academic research.