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		RickHull on Jan 18, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Robert Morris: All About Programming > Consider: how much mathematics from the 1950s is still in use and relevant, versus how much written code is still in use and relevant? This is the wrong question. CS isn't hardly about code. Most of our CS today is from before the 1950s.

electronvolt on Jan 18, 2015 [–]

You're correct that CS isn't about code. Programming is, and that's what I was drawing the comparison with.

Most of the CS we have from pre-1950 is fundamentally mathematics: algorithms, theory of computation, etc.

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