[84] in Cypherpunks
Re: Need some Advice
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brad Cox)
Fri Apr 30 12:53:49 1993
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1993 12:21:27 -0500
To: "Stephen P. Marting" <spam+@CMU.EDU>
From: bcox@gmu.edu (Brad Cox)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
"Stephen P. Marting" <spam+@CMU.EDU> wrote
>The difference between Software Engineering and Computer Science is sort
>of like the difference between Differential Equations and Mathematics.
>SoftEng is a subset of CompSci.
Isn't it more like the difference between epicyclic computation and
Ptolemaic Astronomy?
In other words, don't these labels really denote software pre-engineering
and computer pre-science?
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