Let Go, Standard Library From Community

[Jascha Wetzel]

the german name of this subject is more appropriate.
"informatik" suggests the science of information.

just because there are no experiments doesn't mean it's not a science,
though. mathematics is usually considered a science although has no
experiments either. that's because both aren't natural sciences where
there is a given real world complex that we try to understand by
sampling it with experiments.

in mathematics as well as "informatics" we try to find models of the way
we think. therefore all the experiments take place in our heads.
"informatics" additionally is an engineering science, trying to
build/program machines that mimick the way we think in those models we
found. in many cases we find that the way we think isn't most effective,
therefore we change the models to fit the machines we've already built.
which makes us drift a little more into the engineering direction.

Alexander Panek wrote:
> 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!"