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Hal Abelson

[Computer science] is not really about computers and it's not about computers in the same sense that physics is not really about particle accelerators, and biology is not about microscopes and Petri dishes. . . and geometry isn't really about using surveying instruments.

Computer, Physics, Biology, Using, Sense, Computers
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Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.

Incidentally, Machines, People, Programs, Technology, Trust

There's a good part of Computer Science that's like magic. Unfortunately there's a bad part of Computer Science that's like religion.

Computer, Computer Science, Magic, Religion, Science

Now the reason that we think computer science is about computers is pretty much the same reason that the Egyptians thought geometry was about surveying instruments: when some field is just getting started and you don't really understand it very well, it's very easy to confuse the essence of what you're doing with the tools that you use.

Thinking, Essence, Tools, Same, Computer, Computers

First, we want to establish the idea that a computer language is not just a way of getting a computer to perform operations but rather that it is a novel formal medium for expressing ideas about methodology. Thus, programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.

Ideas, People, Firsts, Expressing, Programs

If we can dispel the delusion that learning about computers should be an activity of fiddling with array indexes and worrying whether X is an integer or a real number, we can begin to focus on programming as a source of ideas.

Begin, Delusion, Ideas, Numbers, Real
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