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From: steve@hubcap.UUCP ("Steve" Stevenson)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: Computer Science: where it belongs
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Date: Mon, 16-Nov-87 11:55:23 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 16 11:55:23 1987
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> In article <21402@cca.CCA.COM> g-rh@CCA.CCA.COM.UUCP (Richard Harter) writes:
>>Here is thought for what it's worth.  I have always felt that one of the
>>failings of the software field is that people don't spend much time studying
>>large existing programs.  There are two points here.

When I had the priviledge of working with John Hopfield (BTL - 1979 )
we had a long talk about "computer science" and the other sciences.
He made two telling points - they're as true today as in 1979:

   1.  CS spends all its time trying to pretend there's no machine there.
   2.  There is no literature in CS in the same sense as the other
		sciences.

The discussion allued to in the referenced ariticle falls in the latter
critism.

-- 
Steve (really "D. E.") Stevenson           steve@hubcap.clemson.edu
Department of Computer Science,            (803)656-5880.mabell
Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-1906