Understanding Nothing

An interesting take on the age old debate, found over on the c2 wiki, in response to the suggestion that teaching computer science should pay much more attention to its applications in the real world:

I disagree. That’s SoftwareEngineering. CompSci should be about the theory and the limits of what’s possible at least as much as it is about coding. If we adopted that view about mathematics, for instance, we’d spend all our time on loan calculations, completing your tax return, and basic statistics