Computer Science Reconsidered: The Invocation Model of Process Expression

Computer Science Reconsidered: The Invocation Model of Process Expression, 9780471798149 (0471798142), John Wiley & Sons, 2007

Consider the possibility that a modern twenty-fi rst century intellectual discipline might be in a phase of development similar to medieval science resting on conceptual foundations that impede and mislead rather than enable and enlighten. Consider further that this crippled intellectual discipline underlies the most spectacular technological achievement in the history of humanity. The computing fi eld considers its conceptual foundations to be of unquestionable mathematical soundness. The diffi culties of computer science are attributed to an inherent complexity in the nature of computation that can only be overcome with disciplined methodology.

Consider the possibility that many of the diffi culties of computer science might in fact be a consequence of ineffective conceptual foundations rather than of an inevitable reality that must be accepted and suffered, that much of the perceived complexity might be conceptual illusions like the dangerous edges of a fl at earth or of a moon forever untouchable in its crystalline sphere.

Consider the possibility that a slight alteration in conceptual view might dispel the illusions and lead to possibilities that cannot, otherwise, be imagined. This book is about such a possibility.

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