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Umm, no. You got half the concept right. Programming, especially in the 70s refers to a set of instructions to be followed in order to achieve a specific task.
by tonocm 11y ago
Umm, no. You got half the concept right. Programming, especially in the 70s refers to a set of instructions to be followed in order to achieve a specific task.
When you prefix it with "computer" you're specifying the domain, namely all instructions that will allow a computer to do something. Like you correctly mentioned, when prefixed with "dynamic" you're specifying the set of instructions that have a common approach (to break problems into subproblems, etc etc). Similarly, when saying "linear" before "programming" you're specifying that the instructions involving this set use linear variable constrains.
- kazinator 11y ago"The term "linear programming" for certain optimization cases was due to George B. Dantzig, although much of the theory had been introduced by Leonid Kantorovich in 1939. (Programming in this context does not refer to computer programming, but from the use of program by the United States military to refer to proposed training and logistics schedules, which were the problems Dantzig studied at that time.)" Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_optimization#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_optimization#Hist...