[rescue] Small servers (was Re: WTT: 1.5G of PC2700 for 1G of PC100)
der Mouse
mouse at Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA
Mon May 5 09:14:33 CDT 2008
>> Which is as it should be; computer science is a theoretical discipline
> No, it is not. It is an applied science just like medicine or
> engineering.
That's a substantial part of the problem, then; different people
understanding the same words to mean different things.
What do _you_ call the theoretical discipline, then? The one to which
belong things like the proof that general sorting cannot happen faster
than n log(n), the Halting Problem, et al?
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