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From: kaz@vision.crest.nt.com (Kaz Kylheku)
Subject: Re: Any research putting c above ada?
Date: 1997/05/01
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Date: 1997-05-01T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <JSA.97Apr30161031@alexandria>,
Jon S Anthony <jsa@alexandria> wrote:
>In article <5k60au$gig@bcrkh13.bnr.ca> kaz@vision.crest.nt.com (Kaz Kylheku) writes:
>
>> What is a computer-science view and how is it incompatible with a software
>> engineering view? Do I detect a slight bias against computer science folk?
>
>IMO, "computer science" is an oxymoron (and this view can and has been
>given good arguments of support).  Obviously others will and do
>disagree.  Shrug.

It's not so much of an oxymoron as it is a simple misnomer. But we are stuck
with it.

Some aspects of CS have a scientific flavor; there is a fair degree of
empiricism.

Whenever you prototype some software, or profile the performance of a program,
you are doing an experiment that is not unlike a scientific experiment. You
form a hypothesis, construct an apparatus to test it, and then reevaluate
and form a new hypothesis...

I couldn't help but smile at Fred Brooks' claim that he is a ``dyed in the wool
empiricist''.