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 _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
