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Foil 4 Physics and Computer Science II

From aJava Grande and Pragmatic Programming Environments Invited Talk at ISCOPE 98, Santa Fe -- Dec 10 98. by Geoffrey Fox
Rather computer science is rather the study of the large macroscopic system formed by interacting entities -- the users and developers of computers -- interacting in the heat bath formed by market forces.
  • What counts are the parameters of this heat bath such as temperature, free energy, critical points etc.
  • Different principles (no GOTO's, distributed objects) are like the different particle species in the physics analogy and together they merge into the final multi-faceted equilibrium
Computer science is pragmatic and an art ......

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