The Mole once again had professional reason to refer colleagues to Perlis’s Epigrams. And once again as usual the Mole took a moment to skim through the list (having pulled it up in a browser to verify the link). The epigram that caught his eye on this occasion — which was not the one where the thread had started — was #112: “Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.”.<\/p>\n
Several months ago the Mole went to a\u00a0talk<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0Peter J. Denning<\/a>\u00a0at the\u00a0Computer History Museum<\/a>. Now the Mole really wanted to enjoy and be impressed by the talk. The Mole has a high opinion of Denning; the Mole has enjoyed reading\u00a0Denning’s columns<\/a>\u00a0over the years; the Mole even frequently points to the “Ladder of Competence” in Denning’s September 2002 column, “Career Redux<\/a>“.<\/p>\n The Mole was disappointed. The Mole was further disappointed when the ideas reappeared in the latest\u00a0Communications<\/a>\u00a0of the\u00a0ACM<\/a>\u00a0(as “Computing is a Natural Science<\/a>“). It’s not that they are bad ideas. They’re very good ideas. The problem is that the Professor doth protest too much, methinks.<\/p>\n As Perlis said, “Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Mole once again had professional reason to refer colleagues to Perlis’s Epigrams. And once again as usual the Mole took a moment to skim through the list (having pulled it up in a browser to verify the link). The epigram that caught his eye on this occasion — which was not the one where… Continue reading 112. Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentaries-on-perliss-epigrams-in-programming","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}