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Dijkstra is supposed to have said something like this though the origin is disputed. "Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about teles
by berkeleyjunk 7y ago
Dijkstra is supposed to have said something like this though the origin is disputed.
"Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."
- carapace 7y ago"Calling it 'computer science' is like calling surgery 'knife science'." (Also, "CS could be called the post-Turing decline in the study of formal systems." But I don't know for sure if that was Dijkstra. It's one of my favorite jokes.)