On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 at 13:09 -0700, Daniel C. wrote: > On 2/16/07, Hans Fugal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >For the same reason that we have physicists, biologists, chemists, etc. > >(theoretical) and engineers > >(practical). > > Except that in physics, you can theorize something that you can't put > into practice. With computers, if you can theorize about something, > you can also sit down and write a program that implements the theory > almost as easily as you can theorize about it. Insert quote from Fred > Brooks about programmers working very closely with pure ideas.
Which is why Computer Scientists code, because code is basically an expression of that thought. This is where the confusion comes from: physicists generally don't build the stuff they dream up (they do of course do experiments), so nobdoy confuses them with engineers. -- Hans Fugal ; http://hans.fugal.net There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. -- Johann Sebastian Bach
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