@NecroTechno oh my god i knew i recognized that name, he wrote SICP
@NecroTechno@ghost.cafe you know shit just got very real real quick
@NecroTechno What computer science? I see calculator tricks.
@NecroTechno so often I come back to this moment
@NecroTechno
Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. -- Edsger Dijkstra
@shapr @NecroTechno it does seem like we should have followed the astronomers' lead in not naming astronomy "telescope science"
@NecroTechno Link to the original video at MIT OpenCourseWare: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J_xL4IGhJA
@NecroTechno Edgar W. Dijkstra on the cruelty of _really_ teaching computer science...
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EWD1036.html
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EWD1036.html
@NecroTechno COMPUTER SCIENCE
IN NAME ONLY
FOR IT IS NEITHER