Dec 2
Djikstra beat me to it
Specifically, over 20 years ago, Djikstra said something along the lines of that Computer Science would exceed the limits of math, that it would be a totally difference discipline. Similar to, but vastly different from math. God damn it.
Here’s the link for reference: 20 years of cruelty in computer science.(PDF Warning)
And he beat me, in reference to the post about What is Computer Science.
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Thank you for posting the link to Dykstra’s treatise. There is more truth in that short writing than I have heard in years of programming practice. And maybe that is what we should call it, just like the medical practice and legal practice — programming practice.
Marshall Lucas