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Re:Knuth: Computer Programming as an Art (1974) by ggreer on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @04:49AM (#10893265)
You're describing software engineering, not computer science.

CS is big-O, Chomsky hierarchy, finite automata, type theory, and computability classes. It's the study of algorithms & data structures, not their implementations. In other words, CS is a branch of math.

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Re:Knuth: Computer Programming as an Art (1974) by mpweiher on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @05:19AM (#10893380)
You're describing theoretical computer science:

Theoretical computer science is a division or subset of general computer science and mathematics that focuses on more abstract or mathematical aspects of computing and includes the theory of computation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theoretical_computer_science

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