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Computer science should be called logic

1 pointsby learningstud3 months ago

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learningstud3 months ago
At the very end of the video, the speaker quipped that computer science is not just about computers and an actual science doesn't have "science" in its name. The development of programming languages, compilers, SMT/MILP solvers, type theories, and proof assistants allude to the true nature of computer science, i.e., logic and its automation. It can be argued that computer science is even more fundamental than math, e.g., recursion/complexity, intuitionism/constructivism, linear logic, homotopy type theory.
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voidhorse3 months ago
Computation is a sibling (or maybe child) of logic, it is not a superset of logic. I like Wadler a lot and get that the Curry-Howard isomorphism makes it tempting to view them as the same thing, but logic is field of far vaster proportions and history. I think &quot;computer science&quot; is properly called computability theory.<p>The proposal in the HN title is a bit like saying &quot;calculus should be called mathematics&quot;.
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ultra-boss3 months ago
We can apply logic to anything and everything. What makes computer science singularly deserving of this label?
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