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- From: kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov ( Scott Dorsey)
- Subject: Re: Are programmers Computer Scientists?
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- References: <1992Sep3.174548.29169@ulowell.ulowell.edu> <Sep03.194343.67982@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> <2250@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu>
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 13:10:22 GMT
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- >>|>
- >>|> Just because someone programs (is required to program)
- >>|> a. Is that person a Computer Scientist
- >>|> b. Should that person be called a Computer Scientist.
- >>|>
- >>|> -or-
- >>|> are all programmers Computer Scientists?
- >>|> [are all programming courses CS courses?]
-
-
- A computer scientist doesn't have to be a programmer, and a programmer doesn't
- have to be a computer scientist. But, it helps. Good programmers invariably
- know something of computer science, and good computer scientists invariably
- know something of programming.
-
- Some computer scientists are really mathematicians or psychologists in
- disguise. Many programmers just put blocks of prewritten code together and
- fiddle with them until they work. It's possible to be one without being the
- other, but not advisable.
- --scott
-