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From: jerry@uwmcsd1.UUCP (Jerry Lieberthal)
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Subject: Re: Exams vs. Programming Assignments
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Date: Tue, 1-Oct-85 16:03:47 EDT
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> >>Computer Science is Algorithms and Theory. [ ... lots deleted ... ]
> 
> >Hah! [ ... lots deleted ... ] The language of and reason for computer
> >science is programming -- and computer scientists who can't write
> >good programs are as useless as English teachers who can't write an
> >proper and grammatical term paper.
> 
> >>Grad School is for the best students, the ones who can think, not
> >>(necessarily) the ones who can program.
> 
> 
> Computer *SCIENCE* is not the same as computer *PROGRAMMING*.
> 
Then there is always D. Knuth's assertion that computer programming is an
art, not a science ...

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