> Some people treat programming as a Social Science ... Yeah really! For example, from http://www.talesfromthe.net/jon/?p=236 http://www.talesfromthe.net/jon/

> Some people treat programming as a Social Science ... Yeah really! For example, from http://www.talesfromthe.net/jon/?p=236 http://www.talesfromthe.net/jon/?p=236 'OK, maybe this is obvious to everybody outside the field of computer science; but within the field, we are in the process of a major paradigm shift -- when I get excited, I describe it as a Kuhnian "scientific revolution in progress", which might be stretching things, but just a little. Computer scientists have historically identified either as mathematicians (ah, the purity) or physicists (pretty good purity and much better government funding); but if you look at the kinds of problems we are trying to solve now (bunches of different aspects of the security problem, privacy, usability of pervasive computers, changing business models, e-voting) it seems pretty clear that the key issues relate to people and the way they communicate and organize themselves, rather than discovering the underlying physical laws of the universe -- in short, the domain of social sciences.'