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  1. Newsgroups: comp.edu
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!usc!wupost!m.cs.uiuc.edu!gillies
  3. From: gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Don Gillies)
  4. Subject: Re: Are computer "scientists" really scientists? (was: Are programmers Computer Scientists?)
  5. Message-ID: <1992Sep12.221034.30284@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
  6. Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
  7. References: <1992Sep4.172303.2572@newshost.lanl.gov> <1992Sep4.173115.3743@newshost.lanl.gov> <1992Sep8.045156.6935@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <1992Sep8.095319.26940@wl.com>
  8. Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 22:10:34 GMT
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  11. schuette@wl.com (Wade Schuette) writes:
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  13. >"programming"?  Bah. That's like saying Mathematicians are "adders".
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  15. Actually, mathematicians are concerned with O(1) algorithms (known as
  16. theorems 8-)).  Computer scientists are concerned with all the
  17. algorithms in the universe with greater time complexity.  8-) 8-)
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  19. Don Gillies - gillies@cs.uiuc.edu - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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