“Computer science is not about computers”

Re:“Computer science is not about computers” by human on Sunday May 30, 2021 @12:28AM (#27330604)

English is not my primary language so correct me if I’m wrong. But didn’t the word "computer" have another meaning before the physical computer machine? Otherwise I would agree it should be renamed to information science.

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Re:“Computer science is not about computers” by chiffre on Sunday May 30, 2021 @02:07AM (#27330986)

It referred to person who does computations by hand and/or abacus.

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Re:“Computer science is not about computers” by Blikkentrekker on Sunday May 30, 2021 @12:31AM (#27330614)

A “computer” is something that “computes”, morphologically.

But even so, it would better be called “computation science”.

It is called “informatica” in Dutch, in any case.

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