From: jason_hindle@yahoo.com   
      
   On 13/11/2025 00:42, kludge@panix.com wrote:   
   >Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=   wrote:   
   >>On Thu, 13 Nov 2025 08:53:51 +1100, Peter Moylan wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> We in Electrical Engineering then proposed that CS be merged with the EE   
   >>> department, and that's what happened. It wasn't that we felt that CS was   
   >>> an engineering discipline. We just wanted to rescue the CS people from a   
   >>> fate worse than death.   
   >>   
   >>Funny how, in the early days (e.g. 1940s/50s/60s), many Comp Sci   
   >>disciplines started within electrical/electronic engineering departments.   
   >   
   >In the seventies and eighties there were two kinds of CS programs, the   
   >ones that came out of EE departments and the ones that came out of math   
   >departments.  They were often dramatically different in their approach   
   >and it wasn't until the ACM curriculum of the mid-1980s that this really   
   >changed and some degree of uniformity appeared.   
   >   
   >Of course, now we DO have CS departments that have sprung from the heads   
   >of business programs.  They are not very CS-like.   
   >--scott   
      
   The funny thing about CS is you don't necessarily need to be great in either   
    of those disciplines to survive.   
      
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