``Computer science''

Why do they call it computer science?
It's not about computers and it's not a science.

Science attempts to understand the real world using empirical evidence and testing. Programmers attempt to understand computers by unit tests and trial and error. If the world was perfect, computing science would be "advanced math" and not a science. One would simply prove his program correct the same way one reasons about math. When you do math, you don't throw a bunch of unit tests on your math, you just prove your math to be correct or incorrect using reasoning and passing around your math to other peers. In computing science people take the science approach or engineering approach instead of the math approach: let's test this sh*t, to hell with proving it. It would take millions of years to test all integer values in math to ensure for example that all even numbers really are even (how do we know, until we unit test every single one of them and divide all even integers by two, to make sure they really are even?). So computing science is a science because, of empirical testing we do on programs. In a utopian society, computing science would be pure math, not science, which would allow infinite mental masturbation and zero work be gotten done.