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Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: the 'science' in computer science
In-Reply-To: <0cb501c0f2bf$97cacea0$e8b7c6d4@SOMA>:Boyd Roberts's message of 23:43:45 Monday,11 June 2001 
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Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 00:43:14 +0200
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Boyd Roberts writes:
 > From: "Boyd Roberts" <boyd@fr.inter.net>
 > Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: the 'science' in computer science
 > Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 23:43:45 +0200
 > 
 > From: "Dan Cross" <cross@math.psu.edu>
 > > 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.

¿Would you say Math is a science?.
Its theoretical foundations are based on turing machines...
(I believe all physics are written in math simbols...)
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