From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <0cc201c0f2c0$4c6a6e60$e8b7c6d4@SOMA> From: "Boyd Roberts" To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> References: <200106111519.LAA28218@augusta.math.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: the 'science' in computer science MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 23:43:45 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: b4c3e138-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 From: "Dan Cross" > Okay, this is getting way off topic for 9fans, but, let me ask > this: at the real abstract, pure level, is science any different > at all from art? I contend that they're one and the same. nonsense. physics is a science. i can predict things with it. does computer science predict anything for me? i'll give you that it does have an axiom that states: you will be plagued by bugs in any development effort but that doesn't really predict anything in anything that vaguely approaches a _law_ of physics -- pick one. eg. the prohibition of speeds greater than the of speed of light. comp sci is more like an engineering discipline with very few fundamentals.