On 28 Feb 2008, at 23:43, realbasic-nug-request at lists dot realsoftware dot
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> From: Charles Yeomans <charles at declareSub dot com>
> Subject: Re: [OT] Why "Computer Science" - was Re: Packed Encoding
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> To: REALbasic NUG <realbasic-nug at lists dot realsoftware dot com>
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> On Feb 28, 2008, at 5:34 PM, Theodore H. Smith wrote:
>
>>> On Feb 28, 2008, at 10:42 AM, Theodore H. Smith wrote:
>>>
>>>> And why do they feel the need to call it computer science? Do they
>>>> call chemistry "chemistry science"? It's like they feel software-
>>>> development isn't good enough, so they have to tack on a little tag
>>>> to
>>>> make it sound more impressive.
>>>
>>> I actually know the answer to that from a Georgia Tech physics
>>> professor that I had in 1977. When you take a Physics or Chemistry
>>> course, you're learning Physics or Chemistry. When you take a
>>> CompSci course, you are learning the "Science" of Computers. The
>>> premise is to provide a broad range of knowledge that can be applied
>>> to computers in general. Granted, most modern courses should be
>>> named "Windows Science" because of their Windows-centric tilt.
>>> Because computers are changing on an almost hourly basis, to learn a
>>> "Computer" would be quite limiting. So, while you were obviously
>>> being cynical, there really IS a reason for the course name.
>>
>>
>> That makes no sense... To learn a "chemical" would take forever
>> too...
>>
>> It's simply because they wanted to make their field sound legitimate,
>> because they felt insecure about their status as "real scientists".
>>
>> Honestly... if it's not a real science then just be happy with it.
>>
>> I suppose computer science, or software-development anyhow, is a
>> science, when it comes to theories, and things proven with logic.
>> After all, all science is based on logic.
>
> Not quite, I think; science is based on observation and experiment.
Not really... It's based on logic. Observations can be wrong,
misleading, broken, falsified...
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