[erk__]

Peter Naur agreed with that which is why it is called "Datalogi" in Denmark and Sweden, his English term Datalogy never really caught on though. He wrote it in a letter to the editor in 1966 and it has pretty much been used since then here as Naur founded the first Datalogy university faculty a few years later.

This also lead to a strange naming now we have data science as well where it is called "Data videnskab" which is just a literal translation of the English term.

[0]: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/365719.366510 (sadly behind a wall)

[asddubs]

informatics may be the closest english analogue. incidentally also what computer science is called in german (informatik)

[Sebb767]

> incidentally also what computer science is called in german (informatik)

Computerwissenschaften (literally computer science) exists, too, but it's the less common word.

[stuartd]

> his English term Datalogy never really caught on though

Perhaps because no one had any idea about how it would be pronounced?