Quoting spiritual leader Hal Abelson, more or less literally, from the Anonymous Evangel:
Computer Science is a terrible name for this business. First off it's not a science. It's maybe an art, or an engineering, or actually you'll see that it's something similar to magic, but it's not a science. And it's not really about computers. Not more than Physics is about particle accelerators, or Biology is about microscopes, or Geometry is about surveying instruments.
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Anonymous2007-07-06 0:22 ID:rcjnDJzJ
Thats why its called computING science now.
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Anonymous2007-07-06 1:05 ID:yuGmcyfZ
But computing isn't a science either. They should've just called it 'computing'.
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Anonymous2007-07-06 2:59 ID:yCwouBgN
OMG!!! I SIGN EXTENDED THE BYTE INTO A WORD!!! WOW, WHAT WIZARDRY!!! HOW MANY MP TO CONVERT WORD TO DWORD!!
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Anonymous2007-07-06 4:11 ID:6e5hgqra
>>7
EXPERT PROGRAMMERS who have achieved Satori do not worry by sign extension, bytes, words, and all these mundane things. Their spells are like magically describing a powerful dynamic language with lexical scopde closures, built-in lists and macros in 50 lines.
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Anonymous2007-07-06 17:07 ID:o4qI0Upq
Look, just because you used to be a moron who didn't appreciate high-level optimization (you know, what you've been calling abstraction; it's just the exact same thing on another level) doesn't mean that very programmer who bothers with assembly is. I find it the height of arrogance to declare that anyone who hasn't read your book is a moron who would write a selection sort in assembly. I am not the blind, retarded fastest runner in the world. I am an intelligent, 20/20 vision fastest runner in the world, who doesn't even need low-level optimization to keep up with you, and uses it if he needs to pass you.