Python's Lisp heritage

[John Roth]

"Carl Banks" <imbosol at vt.edu> wrote in message
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> Computer programming is not science.
>
> The study of algorithms, their properties, etc., is science.
> Implementing a quicksort algorithm is not science, but studying its
> properties is.

I would dispute that. The study of algorithms may very well
be a branch of mathematics, but mathematics is not science.

Science is, among other parts, the study of the natural universe
and things in it. The study of algorithms is a study of things
that have been created by the human mind.


> Don't even get me started on whether is computer engineering is
> engineering.

Legally, in the United States, it isn't. Anything with the word
"engineering" in its name is state regulated, by law.

John Roth