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		majou on Feb 21, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Philosophy of Computer Science FWIW, Peter Naur (N of BNF) said CS ought have been named Datalogy.

LeanderK on Feb 21, 2023 | [–]

In Germany it's called "Informatics" (Informatik in german). I would have loved a name without computer in it, to set it more apart from things like computer/software engineering.

tolleydbg on Feb 21, 2023 | | [–]

I was always partial to how many universities in the UK call it "computing"

photochemsyn on Feb 21, 2023 | [–]

Or possibly, Algorithmics?

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