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isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
Computer science is applied math, a rigorous discipline. It's where you can prove that O(n×log n) grows slower than O(n²).
Software engineering is a behavioral discipline. It's driven by ill-defined business metrics ("bug", "customer value") and is full of beliefs about methodologies formed in the absence of any hope to measure these things precisely.