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As a computer science educator, it's worth remembering that Dijkstra was incredibly full of himself and his specific formal view of the field. There are large p
by dgacmu 4y ago
As a computer science educator, it's worth remembering that Dijkstra was incredibly full of himself and his specific formal view of the field. There are large parts of computer science that have nothing to do with the machine and there are other parts that do. There's no single cut and dried answer here, we're a pretty diverse field that spans everything from mathematics to engineering to a touch of art and human factors.
- lolinder 4y agoWhat you say about Dijkstra is true, but we're not actually talking about a Dijkstra quote here, we're talking about Harold Abelson. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Abelson https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Abelson
- dgacmu 4y agoI think we all started replying to a sibling comment that quoted from Dijkstra and we got it threaded wrong. "Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes” - Edsger Dijkstra