Python's Lisp heritage

[Johann Hibschman]

"John Roth" <johnroth at ameritech.net> writes:

> "Carl Banks" <imbosol at vt.edu> wrote in message
> news:tnos9a.de.ln at 127.0.0.1...
> >
> > 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.

Exactly.  Computer science got to be a science as some unholy average
between mathematics and engineering.  :-)

Math certainly isn't a science.

--Johann