Re: Making money from Java


"Oliver Wong" <owong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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[snip]
> Then again, I call myself a "computer scientist", but I don't think I
> can call anything I've done in this domain an "experiment". What I do is
> more like pure thinking and reasoning, with no external observations. I
> guess this would put "computer science" not under "science", but rather
> under "mathematics" or perhaps "logic/philosophy"?

The basis for computer science was discussed,
in this newsgroup, a few years ago. The discussion
began with a statement, attributed to Dijkstra, that
computer science was a branch of applied
mathematics. The objection was that it could be
a branch of logic. My position, for what it's worth,
was that computer science could draw from both
and jokingly suggested that, as a river to its
tributaries, both mathematics and logic are
branches of computer science.

A few days after the discussion ended, I found
a statement that Bertrand Russell claimed that
mathematics was a branch of logic.



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