Monday, March 22, 2004
PCPro swips theoretical computer science
Dick Pountain, writing in PCPro this month, takes a well-aimed swipe at the becoming-dumber BBC, and hits at computer science as well. I quote
"...computer science is following the same absurdly acceperated lifecycle as the hardware itself: after a promising start with Turing and von Neumann in the 1930s and 1940s, through the glory years of Tony Hoare and Niklaus Wirth in the 1970s, it has already arrived at senility..."
Since the people mentioned are (mainly) theorists, I wonder if my theory colleagues would like to comment?
Dick Pountain, writing in PCPro this month, takes a well-aimed swipe at the becoming-dumber BBC, and hits at computer science as well. I quote
"...computer science is following the same absurdly acceperated lifecycle as the hardware itself: after a promising start with Turing and von Neumann in the 1930s and 1940s, through the glory years of Tony Hoare and Niklaus Wirth in the 1970s, it has already arrived at senility..."
Since the people mentioned are (mainly) theorists, I wonder if my theory colleagues would like to comment?
(c) 2003-2005 Russell Beale
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