Edsger W. Dijkstra, " so-called scientific application ", " so-called clerical application "
"The reason to treat two examples is because they have been drawn from vastly different fields: the one dealing with prime numbers is a so-called scientific application, the other, dealing with the idiosyncrasies of Flexowriters, is a so-called clerical application
These two fields are often regarded as completely foreign to each other: the successful application of the same discipline as illustrated below gives a strong support to the assumption that the difference between scientific and clerical machine usage is by no means an inherent difference, but more probably the result of a difference in intellectual level and professional training of the people engaged. "
pages 1-14 of
Edsger W. Dijkstra, Selected Writings 0n Computing: A Personal Perspective, Springer-Verlag,
1982. ISBN O-387-90652-5
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