alt Hacker News> Purportedly working strategies found by trial and error and discussed in a language that is only intelligible to the in-group
This really does sound like Computer Science since it's very beginnings.
The only difference is that now it's a much more popular field, and not restricted to a few nerds sharing tips over e-mail or bbs.
>This really does sound like Computer Science since it's very beginnings.
Except in actual computer science you can prove that your strategies, discovered by trial and error, are actually good. Even though Dijkstra invented his eponymous algorithm by writing on a napkin, it's phrased in the language of mathematics and one can analyze quantitatively its effectiveness and trade-offs, and one can prove if it's optimal (as was done recently).