Ahouxf.149 net.followup utzoo!decvax!harpo!npois!houxi!houxf!ziegler Fri May 7 10:18:04 1982 Truths from Dr. D. First off, I dismiss all of the revered Dr. Dijkstra's remarks about programming languages as being in the same category as the usual macho technician's attitude, to whit: "If it's not my favorite [programming language, DBMS, OS, terminal, hardware, etc.] then it's no good." Second, there is, at best, a tenuous relationship between the fields of mathematics and computer science. This relationship is mostly historical; before computing machinery was invented the only label to hang on the work that we now call "computer science" was "mathematics". Today we know better, and anyone who propagates the idea that the two fields are the same (or even strongly related) is doing a great disservice to both. Finally, the good doctor seems to be assuming that programming and computer science are one and the same. I personally have always considered programming to be an applied area of computer science, just as I consider logic circuit design to be an applied area of electrical engineering. ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.