lexical query

[Alina Israeli]

Marina Johnson  wrote:


>-"Vychislitel'naia tekhnika"- means hardware
>"informatika" is a sience about information (optomization of information
>"potokov"
>I don't know technical equivalent on English, maybe "information
>currencies", theory
>of information)
>In russia we didn't have a subject "computer sience" the same as in
>school we didn't
>have subject "sience" but "history","geography", "physics and so on. The
>same " computer
>science" is a matter of many subjects.


In the early days we used to call it "programmirovanie" or
"vychislitel'naja matematika" but then a French term "l'informatique" was
borrowed.

Alina Israeli