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The article can be efficiently summed as: Computer Science is not always Math, sometimes it is more of a Science or Engineering or something of all of them. I
by Dn_Ab 14y ago
The article can be efficiently summed as: Computer Science is not always Math, sometimes it is more of a Science or Engineering or something of all of them.
I think this is one of those places where a word has different meanings to different people and correctness takes a religious quality and fruitful discussion requires telepathy. Also often depending on the resolution of the definition and where a person stands on if the thing and its description can/should be distinguished.
People who say computer science is math I suspect are hard pressed to find anything that isn't. Myself for example, I define math as the maximal object that has something to say - about anything that has structure - in a systematic way. You magnify/exaggerate a certain aspect of the structure you think is key and explore it in a systematic way to gain insight on the whole thing. So while aspects of computer science are more engineering or science than math, I can look at the whole system of doing computer science in an engineer like function as mathematically describable.