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by Fleuri 4813 days ago
Compared to what physicISTs, biologISTs, or these scientISTs practice, computer scientists are more likely to be mathmatICIANs and logiICIANs, right? So "Computericians" might be a better title for them.

Also we have the word "Hacker", which is a marvelous invention, and which make these scientists that deal with computers sound so different. Though sometime it's hard to draw the line between what we call "computer scientists" and "programmers" when we use "hacker", but "hacker" is initially been employed as a term for academes, and what's more, we like it, right?