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SICP / What is "Computer Science" ?
LarryNorman
An excerpt from Hal Abelson's opening SICP lecture introducing computer science and contrasting declarative and imperative knowledge. He argues that computer science is not really a science and is more like magic or engineering of ideas.
Cited in debates over whether computer science is a science, and for Abelson's line that it is neither a science nor about computers.
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