On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 03:32:16PM +0800, Marvin T. Pascual wrote: > I would prefer the PLUG-Programmers' List rather than for the Computer Science > List. Why? Not all Computer Science students or probably graduates are really > programmers. In the other way around, not all programmers are Computer Science > students or graduates, like William! =)
But then again, computer science deals with the abstract matters of dealing with and programming computers. It's a branch of mathematics that concerns itself with automata, languages, algorithmics, data structures, and the fundamentals of computation. Programming is sort of the 'engineering' side of the same. Put simply, compsci is what you get when you abstract the fundamentals out of the discipline of programming. If you like analogies, computer science is to programming as Newtonian physics is to mechanical engineering... -- Rafael R. Sevilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +63(2) 8177746 ext. 8311 Programmer, Inter.Net Philippines +63(917) 4458925 http://dido.ph.inter.net/ OpenPGP Key ID: 0x5CDA17D8 Heute die Welt und Morgen das Sonnensystem! _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
