[said Jim] > > Well, one of my Physics textbooks had a quote from someone that i > always liked: > > "Computer Science is to Science, as Plumbing is to Hydrodynamics" > > Ducking for cover now ;-) > > Jim > There's another old one like that, which holds that any discipline that has "science" in its title probably isn't science. Physicists, in particular, have tended to use this to dump on Computer Science, Political Science, Management Science, etc. There's only one problem: traditional natural sciences are starting to go back to putting "science" in their titles: at GW, Geology is now called Earth and Environmental Sciences, and Biology is now called Biological Sciences. This is fun, but fundamentally, who cares? Let's not confuse the name of a thing with the thing (as one of my old CS profs used to say about variables:-)). Mike