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Some of the cliams the parent is making don't hold up to scrutiny, but the core of their argument does. It's sort of like how geometry literally means 'the mea

Some of the cliams the parent is making don't hold up to scrutiny, but the core of their argument does. It's sort of like how geometry literally means 'the measurement of land' since it was originally an applied field developed for surveying farm plots for the bronze age super powers after each flood along the Nile and the levant wiped the property boundaries away. I think it's safe to say it has expanded beyond it's original intention, and CS has the same properties.

Maursault 5y ago
That is the way language works; enough people insist or use the word "cabbage" to mean computer science, eventually it does. But no matter how many people believe that computer science is programming, it will not make it so, because a discipline does not evolve like spoken language does. Those that believe falsehoods simply remain mistaken and do not affect what they are mistaken about to somehow become correct over time. Things are what they are and false expectations won't change that. Computers have evolved, certainly, the tools have gotten much better. But don't confuse the tool with the tool user or toolmaker. Computer Science is the same as it ever was.