Let Go, Standard Library From Community

[Alexander Panek]

On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:28:43 +0900
Bill Baxter <dnewsgroup at billbaxter.com> wrote:

> Don Clugston wrote:
> > 
> > I think "Computer Science" is one of the all-time classic
> > misnomers. There's hardly any science in CS. (Virtually no
> > experimentation, for example).
> 
> Prof. Kenneth Yip used to start his intro to CS lectures out by
> writing "Computer Science" on the blackboard in giant letters.  Then
> he'd start the lecture by saying the name is kind of odd for the
> subject because it's really not a science.  And he'd put a big "X"
> over the science part.  Next he'd say, "and what's more it's not
> actually about computers either".  Another big "X".
> 

Heh.. I kept telling my colleagues at school something similar, when
they had problems implementing the latest Hello-World-Calculator in C#.
(I'm always the one helping those who are "not capable" of
"programming", in my class..)

"It's not about the programming language..it's just.. a problem and a solution!"