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Re:Students are fleeing US law schools and pouring into engi... by theVirginian on Wednesday March 11, 2015 @03:35PM (#9186442)
Interesting to read that. I have always thought of CS as a discipline that involves creating and testing competing explanatory models of the world similarly to the way that a lawyer might construct an argument to represent a series of events or a mathematician might construct an equation to represent a set/series of data.
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Re:Students are fleeing US law schools and pouring into engi... by amyjess on Wednesday March 11, 2015 @06:59PM (#9188047)
You could also think of law as a form of code.
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Re:Students are fleeing US law schools and pouring into engi... by big_youth on Wednesday March 11, 2015 @07:22PM (#9188142)
I think it's more like an api. You hack it to get what you want.
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Re:Students are fleeing US law schools and pouring into engi... by cbd1984 on Wednesday March 11, 2015 @06:27PM (#9187854)
CS is also about creatively using fixed rules to get a desired result.

But then, so's engineering.

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