From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony) Subject: Re: Any research putting c above ada? Date: 1997/05/06 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 239782089 Distribution: world References: <5ih6i9$oct$1@waldorf.csc.calpoly.edu> <33674E4C.446B@cca.rockwell.com> <5k88b3$340@bcrkh13.bnr.ca> <3368A6FE.41C6@cca.rockwell.com> <5kaqd4$m9b@bcrkh13.bnr.ca> <3369FCAF.41C6@cca.rockwell.com> <336E51EB.6275@pti-us.com.nospam> Organization: PSI Public Usenet Link Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-05-06T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article clines@delete_this.airmail.net (Kevin Cline) writes: > >Jon S Anthony wrote: > >... > >> Most of what passes as > >> so called "computer science" is just watered down mathematics - > >> discrete mathematics... > > It's not watered down. What you see in an undergraduate CS cirriculum may be > simpler than other undergraduate math courses, but there is plenty of > interesting stuff there. That's called watered down in my book. But that is not a big deal if the whole idea was to simply apply the stuff and not try to play at being a mathematician. If that is what you like or think important, then go be a mathematician - it certainly is a lot more interesting. IMO. /Jon -- Jon Anthony Organon Motives, Inc. Belmont, MA 02178 617.484.3383 jsa@organon.com