I also thought of Jacquard as I was reading this. But that's not the point of the article at all. I'm with you 100%, it is useful and constructive to consider o

I also thought of Jacquard as I was reading this. But that's not the point of the article at all. I'm with you 100%, it is useful and constructive to consider other programming-like disciplines and potentially consider retroactively naming them 'programs' (e.g. as a child first learning to code I was fascinated by my grandmother's knitting patterns, they seemed very similar to the programs I was learning to write). But that's not what is under discussion here: this is about actual uses of the word 'program(me)' in computing contexts and their precursors, and specifically whether credit for invention of that term belongs to the theoreticians or the engineers, which has broader implications in how we approach the field of computing today.