Somehow I got to this article by Fred Brooks: "The...
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Somehow I got to this article by Fred Brooks: "The Computer Scientist as Toolsmith II" and found it really interesting, I decided to summarize some of its points here: Computer Science: A Discipline Misnamed (Fred Brooks)
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TBH, I've never much liked this framing. There are, so far as I can tell, three very different things that get lumped together in our field: programming, software engineering, and computer science. Brooks is talking about software engineering here, and I agree with everything he's saying in that context, but there are many findings in theoretical computer science that are as primal as anything we know from any other branch of the sciences.
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I agree with that, I think it made sense in the beginning to have everything under a single name since the boundaries were unclear, but I believe there's a part of CS that should "move" to the math side, a part that should become engineering and a part that should move to design.
another theoretical part should find a space in complex/emergent systems research
and we should try to keep al in close contact but don't expect one to be "above/better" than others
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