Back in the 1980s as I was thinking about what to do at university, I was told that doing a Computing A-level was a bad idea if I was going on to do Computer Science as a degree. It was all academic as I wound up picking chemistry in a process that wasn't much more deterministic than flipping a coin but I remember the argument that computing was now a science and desperate to flaunt it.
In practice, it was more an issue of branding than of reality especially at places such as Imperial College,....
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