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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!anarres.CS.Berkeley.EDU!bh
  2. From: bh@anarres.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Brian Harvey)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.edu
  4. Subject: Re: Are programmers Computer Scientists?
  5. Date: 4 Sep 1992 04:20:57 GMT
  6. Organization: University of California at Berkeley
  7. Lines: 12
  8. Message-ID: <186o79INNe9@agate.berkeley.edu>
  9. References: <1992Sep3.174548.29169@ulowell.ulowell.edu> <Sep03.194343.67982@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> <2250@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu>
  10. NNTP-Posting-Host: anarres.cs.berkeley.edu
  11.  
  12. I can't believe people are still discussing this trivial question.
  13. This is *worse* than whether C is better than Fortran, or whether
  14. physicists can program.
  15.  
  16. I mean, really.  "Are firefighters peace officers?"  "Are stenographers
  17. white collar workers?"  "Are computer scientists scientists?"
  18. "Are performance artists artists?"  "Is rap music?"  Who cares?
  19.  
  20. People used to talk about substantive questions in this group, like
  21. what should we teach to whom, and how can we use technology effectively.
  22.  
  23. Oh well, at least I learned about the K command.
  24.