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Peter Naur agreed with that which is why it is called "Datalogi" in Denmark and Sweden, his English term Datalogy never really caught on though. He wrote it in
by erk__ 5y ago
Peter Naur agreed with that which is why it is called "Datalogi" in Denmark and Sweden, his English term Datalogy never really caught on though.
He wrote it in a letter to the editor in 1966 and it has pretty much been used since then here as Naur founded the first Datalogy university faculty a few years later.
This also lead to a strange naming now we have data science as well where it is called "Data videnskab" which is just a literal translation of the English term.
[0]: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/365719.366510 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/365719.366510 (sadly behind a wall)
- stuartd 5y ago> his English term Datalogy never really caught on though Perhaps because no one had any idea about how it would be pronounced?
- asddubs 5y agoinformatics may be the closest english analogue. incidentally also what computer science is called in german (informatik)
- Sebb767 5y ago> incidentally also what computer science is called in german (informatik) Computerwissenschaften (literally computer science) exists, too, but it's the less common word.