[lbo-talk] More on science

joanna 123hop at comcast.net
Tue May 15 09:33:46 PDT 2007


No Carrol. That's like saying that the essence of cars is in their use. There's a diff between using a thing and being able to create or fix the thing.

Zillions of people use computers without knowing anything about them.

Joanna

Carrol Cox wrote:


>joanna wrote:
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>>I learned more about computing by reading Von Neuman and Turing than by
>>reading a lot of more up-to-date specialists. You have to know a subject
>>deeply and broadly to write clearly and comprehensibly about it, and
>>most specialists just don't have that depth and breadth.
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>The essence of computing is in the _use_ of it, not in its abstract
>science. Who knew more about pianos: Beethoven & Liszt or those who
>manufactured them? Scienc is iimportant of course, but the nature of
>computers can only be _really_ understood by those who use them to get
>things done and who wouldn't know Turing from a Stanley Steamer.
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>Carrol
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