From: Patrick Kelly <kameo76890@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] parallels
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 12:02:56 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <097ACA1E-2886-4986-9D65-7E1CEE524C3D@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <095c2705f87146bf66758e638489c094@coraid.com>
On Jan 8, 2010, at 2:46 PM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com> wrote:
>>> it's unfortunate that computer history isn't a bigger
>>> component of a computer science degree.
>>
>> History and Philosophy of Science was slow in becoming a legitimate
>> academic pursuit of great practical value. It will probably not be
>> quite as long before the analogous subject will materialise for
>> electronic computing. It is an answered question how much influence
>> financial interests will have on it.
>
> the history and philosophy of $subject would be a broader, and
> less applicable topic than what i'm getting at. in dict(1), /history/
> 1.1 or 2 is what i'm talking about.
>
> no (serious) physicist since newton or since maxwell has ignored their
> work. no mathematician since newton or hilbert has ignored their
> work. computer science seems exceptional to me in this regard;
> we have learned many things that don't work, but seldom seem to
> recall the lessons learned.
History should be a part of everything. Alas this isn't the case. I
tend to read up on everything, past and present, before starting a
project, people think it's stupid. I'm more successful, but it's still
stupid...
>
> - erik
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-08 17:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-08 10:44 Francisco J Ballesteros
2010-01-08 10:48 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2010-01-08 18:58 ` geoff
2010-01-08 19:00 ` David Leimbach
2010-01-08 16:49 ` Patrick Kelly
2010-01-08 19:12 ` geoff
2010-01-08 16:52 ` Patrick Kelly
2010-01-08 19:18 ` ron minnich
2010-01-08 16:55 ` Patrick Kelly
2010-01-08 19:40 ` François Revol
2010-01-08 19:23 ` erik quanstrom
2010-01-08 19:26 ` Corey Thomasson
2010-01-08 19:28 ` lucio
2010-01-08 19:46 ` erik quanstrom
2010-01-08 17:02 ` Patrick Kelly [this message]
2010-01-10 14:37 ` Robert Raschke
2010-01-08 20:30 ` lucio
2010-01-15 16:51 ` William Cowan
2010-01-15 17:30 ` erik quanstrom
2010-01-20 0:47 ` Patrick Kelly
2010-01-20 1:00 ` erik quanstrom
2010-01-08 19:26 ` Iruata Souza
2010-01-08 19:48 ` Tim Newsham
2010-01-08 19:42 ` Bakul Shah
2010-01-08 19:45 ` Tim Newsham
2010-01-08 19:47 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2010-01-08 20:04 ` François Revol
2010-01-09 9:08 ` Anthony Sorace
2010-01-09 14:53 ` erik quanstrom
2010-01-09 16:10 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2010-01-09 16:14 ` erik quanstrom
2010-01-09 17:08 ` Joseph Stewart
2010-01-09 17:20 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2010-01-09 23:38 ` Federico G. Benavento
2010-02-10 15:51 ` akss
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