From: bcox@gmu.edu (Brad Cox)
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 93 09:19:24 PDT
To: "Stephen P. Marting" <spam+@CMU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Need some Advice
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"Stephen P. Marting" <spam+@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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