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From: eugene@pioneer.arpa (Eugene Miya N.)
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Subject: Re: Is Computer Science Science?
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Date: Wed, 31-Dec-69 18:59:59 EDT
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A couple of more recommended readings which came to me after a short
conversion with Denning:

"Cargo Cult Science" by Richard Feynman last chapter (1974 Comm. Addr.
at Caltech) in his Autobiography which I reread before bed last evening.

"An Empirical Study of FORTRAN Programs" Software -- Practice and
Experience by Don Knuth Feb. 1971, see intro and conclusions.

Knuth's paper in American Math. Monthly on the differences between
Algorithmic and Mathematical Thinking, around 1985.

These along with Simon, etc. mentioned earlier.

Unfortunately, I would say CS exhibits some cargo cult characteristics.
This does not have to be, we can change it.

From the Rock of Ages Home for Retired Hackers:

--eugene miya
  NASA Ames Research Center
  eugene@ames-aurora.ARPA
  "You trust the `reply' command with all those different mailers out there?"
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