[spc476]

But I wouldn't expect physicists to have disdain for engineers.

Then again, any discipline that has "science" in its name probably isn't.

[nradov]

Where is the disdain?

[spc476]

The professors' contempt of computers? In a computer science department? I mean, it wasn't math I was majoring in ...

[akvadrako]

Originally CS was a branch of math, then the issue was confused because many places taught software engineering in CS departments, and finally we begane to settle on some sane terminology.

What I think they now commonly mean:

* CS is a branch of math

* the art of building software is engineering