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

Micha Nelissen micha at neli.hopto.org
Sat Dec 2 12:14:55 CET 2006


Daniël Mantione wrote:
> 
> Op Sat, 2 Dec 2006, schreef Micha Nelissen:
> 
>> Daniël 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 

Indeed, that's why I said "comput*ing*", i.e. the working with
computers, but not the science of the computers themselves.

Micha



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