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impossible to exclude SPJ from any sensible definition of "theoretical computer science" Yes, there is. Vide my last sentence above. Proving that is futile be
by slackenerny 17y ago
impossible to exclude SPJ from any sensible definition of "theoretical computer science"
Yes, there is. Vide my last sentence above.
Proving that is futile because you want to argue anywas and as I said I'm not that eloquent.
Nobody takes away from SPJ of what he is.
Edit: you expanded your argument after I wrote above. I don't feel like I have anything useful to say. Not that I felt that in the first place, I just gave a counterexaple showing of how world stands. Next time I'll run into someone I'll first ask what school he attends and who is his advisor instead of arguing about what he semantically meant describing his field. Then it would be evident what he works in and if we have anything to learn from eachother insetad of wasting our both time for idle argument.
- gdp 17y ago> Next time I'll run into someone I'll first ask what school he attends and who is his advisor instead of arguing about what he semantically meant describing his field. If you actually meant the reverse of that, then I agree that would be a far superior topic of conversation than school of origin or advisor.
- slackenerny 17y agoNo, superior way would be to refrain from talking with people at all when I clearly see I'm not up to challenge. Especially to refrain from meta discussions. As Richard Hamming said, one may either just do research accepting things as they are, or changing people's minds, but not both. By the way, last time I checked there was no satisfactory definition of "computer" amongst various theoretical computer sciences. Thank god it's not my problem.
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