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Programming is a Pseudoscience

Name: Anonymous 2017-11-24 12:52

In my dictionary, the preferred definition of science involves discovering properties of the natural world. Engineering involves the application of those properties to solve practical problems. By those definitions programmers are neither scientists nor engineers. The principal objects of their study are manmade, not natural. -- William A. Wulf, Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Name: Anonymous 2017-11-24 12:53

in his dictionary, math, logic and statistics are not science

Name: Anonymous 2017-11-24 12:58

Wittgenstein is more of a computer scientist than he is an engineer. The analytical philosophy meme is real.

Name: Anonymous 2017-11-24 14:46

Who cares about programmers anyway, we are computer scientists here.

Name: Anonymous 2017-11-24 15:17

>>2
Which is correct.

Name: Anonymous 2017-11-24 16:04

>>4
Computer scientists are glorified programmers.

Name: Anonymous 2017-11-25 4:28

>>7
I'm not saying you're wrong, but most "computer scientists" are definitely code monkeys.

Name: Anonymous 2017-11-26 23:13

>>7
Explain why every code monkey does CS instead of SE then...

Name: Anonymous 2017-11-26 23:19

>>9
They have misconceptions.

Name: Anonymous 2017-11-26 23:42

>>9
Code monkies don't even have to take a CompSci course.

Name: Anonymous 2017-11-26 23:53

>>11
When they want to take degrees, they go for that.

Name: Anonymous 2017-11-27 1:03

>>8
They are not computer scientists then.

Name: Anonymous 2017-11-27 10:41

>>13
But the degree says computer science......

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