Need some Advice

Brad Cox bcox at gmu.edu
Fri Apr 30 09:19:24 PDT 1993


"Stephen P. Marting" <spam+ at CMU.EDU> wrote
>The difference between Software Engineering and Computer Science is sort
>of like the difference between Differential Equations and Mathematics. 
>SoftEng is a subset of CompSci.  

Isn't it more like the difference between epicyclic computation and
Ptolemaic Astronomy?

In other words, don't these labels really denote software pre-engineering
and computer pre-science?
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       George Mason Program on Social and Organizational Learning








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