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The Computer “Scientist” as a Toolsmith [pdf]

3 pointsby prattbhattabout 10 years ago

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drwolfabout 10 years ago
Neat find. Interesting that it &quot;First appeared in ... 1977&quot;.<p>Furthermore: &quot;Computer scientists are in fact engineers of abstract objects ... we are toolsmiths building for others to use.&quot;<p>I along with several friends and family holding degrees in CS consistently run into misunderstandings about what we do, can do, and are capable of doing. Dijkstra is fabled to have said it best as &quot;Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.&quot;
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