Peter Otten wrote:
> Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou wrote:
>
>>and then, apart from t-shirts, the PSF could sell Python-branded
>>shampoos named "poetry in lotion" etc.
>
> Which will once and for all solve the dandruffs problem prevalent among the
> snake community these days.
And once again the P
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 15:46:01 +0300, rumours say that Christos "TZOTZIOY"
Georgiou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> might have written:
>(kudos to Steve Holden for
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] where the term PIPO
>(Poetry In, Poetry Out) could be born)
oops! kudos to Michael Spencer (I never saw Michael's message on my
Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou wrote:
> and then, apart from t-shirts, the PSF could sell Python-branded
> shampoos named "poetry in lotion" etc.
Which will once and for all solve the dandruffs problem prevalent among the
snake community these days.
Not funny? know then that German has one term for
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 14:29:49 +0100, rumours say that Tom Anderson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> might have written:
>At one point, a friend and i founded a university to give our recreational
>random hackery a bit more credibility (well, we called ourself a
>university, anyway; it was mostly a joke). We c
On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Terry Hancock wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 June 2005 08:12 am, Magnus Lycka wrote:
>
>> Oh well, I guess it's a bit late to try to rename the Computer
>> Science discipline now.
>
> Computer programming is a trade skill, not a science. It's like
> being a machinist or a carpenter --
> > Oh well, I guess it's a bit late to try to rename the Computer
> > Science discipline now.
> The best I've heard is "Informatics" -- I have a vague impression
> that this is a more European name for the field.
The word "Informatics" had been invented by a Soviet computer scientist
Andrey Ersh
Terry Hancock ha scritto:
>
> It's the reverse-translation from the French "Informatique".
Or maybe the italian Informatica...
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On Tuesday 14 June 2005 08:12 am, Magnus Lycka wrote:
> Oh well, I guess it's a bit late to try to rename the Computer
> Science discipline now.
Computer programming is a trade skill, not a science. It's like
being a machinist or a carpenter --- a practical art.
Unfortunately, our society has a v
On Tuesday 14 June 2005 10:21 am, Scott David Daniels wrote:
> > Oh well, I guess it's a bit late to try to rename the Computer
> > Science discipline now.
> The best I've heard is "Informatics" -- I have a vague impression
> that this is a more European name for the field.
It's the reverse-transl
Scott David Daniels wrote:
> Magnus Lycka wrote:
>
>> It seems to me that *real* computer scientists are very rare.
>
> I suspect the analysis of algorithms people are among that group.
> It is intriguing to me when you can determine a lower and upper
> bound on the time for the best solution to
Magnus Lycka wrote:
> It seems to me that *real* computer scientists are very rare.
I suspect the analysis of algorithms people are among that group.
It is intriguing to me when you can determine a lower and upper
bound on the time for the best solution to a problem relatively
independent of the pa
Magnus Lycka:
> While scientists do build and create things,
> the ultimate goal of science is understanding. Scientists build
> so that they can learn. Programmers and engineers learn so that
> they can build.
Well put! I am going to add this to my list of citations :)
Michele Simio
On 6/14/05, Magnus Lycka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Andrew Dalke wrote:
> > Andrea Griffini wrote:
> >
> >>This is investigating. Programming is more similar to building
> >>instead (with a very few exceptions). CS is not like physics or
> >>chemistry or biology where you're given a result (the w
Andrew Dalke wrote:
> Andrea Griffini wrote:
>
>>This is investigating. Programming is more similar to building
>>instead (with a very few exceptions). CS is not like physics or
>>chemistry or biology where you're given a result (the world)
>>and you're looking for the unknown laws. In programming
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