[LUG.ro Mix] UTN vs. FCEIA

[Nicolás Aimetti]

En está discusión, en algunos de los mensajes surgió el tema de qué es 
la informática o la computación o como uno quiera llamarle sin ponerse a 
hilar muy fino en la cosa, lo cual trajo a mi memoria la introducción de 
un libro acerca de information modelin que me gustaría compartir con la 
lista:
(Está en ingles y la verdad no me dan ganas de ponerme a traducir, así 
que disculpas a quién no entienda)

Why Compute? What are computers for?
What is their purpose?
Suppose your life depended upon coming up with a word or phrase that 
most accurately summed up what computing is all about. What would your 
answer be?

Would you say that computing is about sex?
drugs?
rock n roll?

No, there s not too much of that in computing.

Well then, perhaps it s about money?
power?
food?
gambling?

No, these topics are hardly ever discussed in computing magazines. This 
is surely most regrettable.
Does this mean that, if we take out all the interesting things in life, 
computing is about what remains?
Not quite, we hope!
 Computing is concerned with taking the interesting things out of life 
and representing them somehow. It is all about modeling. Everything 
inside a computer is a representation of something else.

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La verdad quizás no tenga mucho que ver, pero está bueno...

Saludos,
              Nicolás.