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by joshuamorton 1183 days ago
No, I mean that's an application yes, but I'd still call Alonzo Church a computer scientist and his work theoretical computer science.

Much as how people who study computability are computer scientist, even though none of the asymptomatic improvements to matrix multiplication since 1990 are even remotely relevant to any kind of real-life program.