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Re:New Grad vs. Senior Dev by Jasper_ on Saturday March 28, 2020 @02:34PM (#22713235)
Models are easy when you turn every cow into a sphere. But physicists never believe their models respect the real world. Computer Science should be about the Science of Computers, not hypothetical models acting on hypothetical architectures.
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Re:New Grad vs. Senior Dev by duck2 on Saturday March 28, 2020 @02:46PM (#22713354)
Computer Science existed long before there were computers. I think the Science of Computers you mention is known as Computer Architecture.
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Re:New Grad vs. Senior Dev by msla on Sunday March 29, 2020 @03:27AM (#22717075)
> Computer Science existed long before there were computers.

No, various bits and pieces of it did, but not the whole, coherent field, which is motivated by the existence of computers.

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Re:New Grad vs. Senior Dev by msla on Saturday March 28, 2020 @04:46PM (#22714195)
> Computer Science existed long before there were computers.

Not in its current form, and not if you define "computers" with a sufficiently broad net.

(Or broad loom, tipping a hat to Jacquard... )

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