[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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