Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcvax!ukc!acorn!moncam!paul From: paul@moncam.co.uk (Paul Hudson) Newsgroups: comp.software-eng Subject: Re: Rhetoric and Software Engineering Summary: Science snobbery ... Message-ID: <155@marvin.moncam.co.uk> Date: 23 May 89 15:21:46 GMT References: <1886@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> <5315@pbhyf.PacBell.COM> Organization: Monotype ADG, Cambridge, UK Lines: 23 In article , emuleomo@yes.rutgers.edu (Emuleomo) writes: > Wonders will never cease! How can you include COMPUTER SCIENCE in > humanities when this discipline evolved from the math and EE depts.?? > My suspicion is that this author never took courses like Over here several places put maths in the "arts" side of the fence. It's my experience that mathematics does attract the "arty" people as well as the science. (Speaking as a mathematician who's definately on the science side.. ). That makes the humanities OK for computer science to me, especially since there's not all that science in the computer science I've seen practised ... Paul Hudson MAIL: Monotype ADG, Science Park, Cambridge, CB4 4FQ, UK. PHONE: +44 (223) 420018 EMAIL: paul@moncam.co.uk, ;" FAX: +44 (223) 420911 ...!ukc!acorn!moncam!paul `"";";" "/dev/null full: please empty the bit bucket" -- Paul Hudson MAIL: Monotype ADG, Science Park, Cambridge, CB4 4FQ, UK. PHONE: +44 (223) 420018 EMAIL: paul@moncam.co.uk, ;" FAX: +44 (223) 420911 ...!ukc!acorn!moncam!paul `"";";" "/dev/null full: please empty the bit bucket"