Path: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com!newsmst01a.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!atl-c02.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!border1.nntp.ash.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local1.nntp.ash.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 07:55:13 -0500 Reply-To: "Laconic2" From: "Laconic2" Newsgroups: comp.databases.theory References: <40819cdf$0$570$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> <7FKhc.1320$17.155177@news1.epix.net> Subject: Re: c.d.theory lexicon overview Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 08:56:19 -0400 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 Message-ID: <6-SdnUv0ofws5gLdRVn-jA@comcast.com> Lines: 9 NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.60.68.134 X-Trace: sv3-wbtqIRtJfOkfKQA1abfZ+aeE3XvM7qKqHGZfhIqEPvqQWfLSRiKg3Cm96VF+t31sEPe4G/7BZdDIzP8!UQkhiD3JxAjTWVZ2Rewhu1e5A9Xo5VIm4TGQuYmcEUz9FOaFJah8Ti/kpGt9 X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Xref: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com comp.databases.theory:26393 I think that most of what is called "computer science" is really engineering. Engineering makes use of the methods and the results of science, and the methods and results of math, but it isn't exactly either one. "Software Engineering" comes a little closer. But a lot of computer engineering isn't SW engineering as such.