Abelson makes this point in the opening seconds of his 1986 Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs course. Lecture 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v

Abelson makes this point in the opening seconds of his 1986 Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs course. Lecture 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J_xL4IGhJA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J_xL4IGhJA He explains that Computer Science is a terrible name – it's not a science, and "not about computers in the same sense that physics is not really about particle accelerators, and biology is not really about microscopes and petri dishes".