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Engineering is wonderful -- but think of what happened after real science got invented!

Today's "computer science" is much more like "library science" than it should be on the one hand, and too much coincident with engineering on the other (and usually not great engineering at that).

It's way past time for our not-quite-a-field to grow up more in important ways.

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Agreed. It's really motivating to have someone who has shown a few times what can be done continuing to push for better. It's also helpful for you call a spade a spade when you talk of reinventing the flat tire. If more people would recognise both of these then maybe we could have a better future and more stable engineering present (rather than framework/language of the week!)

It would be very good if we starting to do real engineering and real science wrt software and most design ...

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