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From: mjl@cs.rit.edu
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Subject: Re: computer science, et.al. (was Re: CS education)
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Date: 15 Nov 89 14:45:20 GMT
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In article <1989Nov13.212400.9168@Neon.Stanford.EDU> gray@cs.Stanford.EDU (Cary G. Gray) writes:
>I'm aware of three different things people mean when they say "computer
>science":
>  - anything done with a computer
>  - "what I do"
>  - the science of computation
>Only the last is accurate (unless you are, say, Don Knuth, in which the
>second would also be correct most of the time).

I assume the times when this doesn't apply to Knuth are when he's
concentrating on the "art" of computation, right? :-)

Mike Lutz

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