News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Turing Oversold?. Parent comment

Re:Turing Oversold? by Ar-Curunir on Thursday September 16, 2021 @12:38PM (#28553947)
I mean, if you want to relegate CS to only mean theoretical CS, then you’d be in a small population: most theorists don’t want that, even. One of the cool things about CS is the rich interplay between applications and theory, and separating the two would only harm both.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Turing Oversold? by SquishyPanda23 on Thursday September 16, 2021 @03:02PM (#28555829)
Nobody is trying to relegate CS to a theoretical discipline. But theoretical CS exists, so it doesn't make sense to claim CS is the study of mechanical computers. Since it started as a theoretical discipline, it makes even less sense to say that the field was founded when we first figured out how to practically mechanize the ideas in CS.
[ Parent | on HN ]