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by ende 3596 days ago
Much of computer science is a science. The contention seems to comes from the fact that software engineers tend to come from computer science departments. Maybe more universities should create separate software engineering departments?
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I don't feel qualified enough to discuss whether or not CS is truly a science, but I do think there's a strong distinction to be made between it and soft eng, for sure.
> Much of computer science is a science.

AFAICT, its mostly a subdomain of math, not science in the empirical sense.

Reminds of me this - https://xkcd.com/435/