I didn’t say CS wasn’t Math because I dislike Math! I think saying that programming and CS is Math makes bad code and ignores many CS issues that have nothing to do with Math.
In 2000, I took 2, 3rd year Econometrics courses that in some 3 hour classes, had nothing but formulas on the board. This is still Economics even though Math was heavily used. I haven’t looked up the definition for Math and Arithmetic but most people I have talked to, talk about Math being formulas with variables and Arithmetic being adding, subtracting etc. People use simple Arithmetic in normal daily life and don’t call retail sales Math. There are many concepts in Math that don’t work in CS and programming and many techniques that are strictly related to CS. It seems that most PhD’s in Computer Science are given out for Math type work and are mostly awarded by Math Professors. For 10 years in the 1980’s I had a partner who was a full Math professor so I am lamenting the distortion that CS is seen as just some kind of Math. I have worked in the microcomputer field for the past 37 years and I hope I can be forgiven for feeling short changed by the Math fraternity. Us CS professionals just get no respect. For all the graduate student slave work and the work done by professors in CS, please tell me what major programming work has been accomplished by the ivory tower. My experience tells me that is you can’t program, at least you can teach! Doesn’t say much for our field does it? My experience also tells me that the best programming that has been made in the past 25 years was mostly done by a team of one rather than a team of programmers (Obviously there are many exceptions but it does seem strange.). David Clark From: Logan Streondj [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: December-31-12 11:47 PM To: AGI Subject: Re: [agi] Why Logic & Maths Have Sweet FA to do with Real world reasoning ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
