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		thaumasiotes on Feb 16, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: CMU CS Academy: a free online computer science cur... > but CS is quickly going the way of the kleenex Everyone knows what it is, everyone makes annual use of it? The name has expanded from "a product, sold by a particular company" to "exactly the same product, but sold by any company"? Help me out here.

ggsp on Feb 16, 2023 [–]

Maybe they mean “programming” is becoming a metonym for “computer science”?

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