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Are questions about programming language design on-topic here?

Programming language design is on topic, though some people are rather keen on suggesting that anything related to programming should be closed. I, for one, welcome more programming languages questi …
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What is Computer Science?

Misquoting Justice Potter Stewart: I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description computer science; and perhaps I c …
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Is “Good uses of computer viruses” on-topic?

I think questions about viruses should be considered in scope, especially if we see it as either a technical or thought experiment kind of question. …
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Why is this question considered on topic?

The WWW has been the topic of research for computer scientists (and physicists, statisticians, social scientists, etc). At its core it is a (very) large graph, and graph theory is central to (theoreti …
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