[fpc-pascal] even linus torvalds prefer pascal over c

[Daniël Mantione]

Op Sat, 2 Dec 2006, schreef Micha Nelissen:

> Dani=EBl Mantione wrote:
> > (1) I'm using the in English not so common "informatics" instead of =

> >     "computer science", because Dijkstra greatly disliked the term).
> =

> How about "computing science", or is that too "Eindhovens" ? ;-)

Dijkstra disliked the term because informaticians/computer scientists =

don't study how a computer works. "Informatics is no more about computers =

than astronomy is about telescopes" is a well known statement from him. =

Topics like algoritm design, computability theory, formal language =

theory, computation models, automata theory, they have indeed very =

little to do with actual working computers and to do research on the topic =

pen and paper is much more usefull than a computer.

Dani=EBl