[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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