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From: gillett@ceomax..dec.com (Christopher Gillett)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: It looks like he's at it again!
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Date: 23 Jul 90 13:25:27 GMT
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In article <3455@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
>Let's keep things straight:
>    invention and analysis of algorithms: computer science
>    design and implementation of reliable programs: software engineering
>    analysis of most existing computer architectures: hardware pathology
>(:-)

This makes sense to me.  But is the "invention and analysis of algorithms"
more in the domain of mathematics than anything else?  Seems to me that
a lot of the stuff like order of complexity analysis, formal languages, 
boolean algebra, sorting and searching techniques, etc. all tend to fall
into the realm of the mathematics.

Who was it, Tony Hoare who said something like "Computer Science is a
division of Mathematics.  Mathematics is a registered trademark of
Cambridge University". :-)

I'm amazed by the amount of hate mail I've gotten overnight since I 
first followed up on this! :-(

/Chris

P.S.  #include <standard_disclaimers>
      ^he's too lazy to rebuild his news reader to include more
       than 4 lines in the .signature file.

k
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