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- From: jlg@cochiti.lanl.gov (J. Giles)
- Subject: Re: Hardware Support for Numeric Algorithms
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.180609.8026@newshost.lanl.gov>
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- Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
- References: <1992Nov18.005857.2241@oracle.us.oracle.com> <1efg1gINNm6c@network.ucsd.edu>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 18:06:09 GMT
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- In article <1efg1gINNm6c@network.ucsd.edu>, mbk@lyapunov.ucsd.edu (Matt Kennel) writes:
- |> akao@.com (Adam Kao) writes:
- |> : [...]
- |> : Computer science is not mathematics. Computer science is not the servant
- |> : of mathematics. Computer science is related to mathematics only by
- |> : historical accident.
- |>
- |> Yup, those mere "accidents of history", like Turing and Von Neumann.
-
- This argument can go on and on. The fact is that computing "science"
- is a misnomer. CS is to mathematics as engineering is to the hard
- sciences. Mathematics is the study of the properties of formal
- systems. CS is the application (and further study) of particular
- varieties of formal systems. To say that this relationship doesn't
- exist or is an historical accident is to miss the fundamental nature
- of CS.
-
- --
- J. Giles
-