A theory: recipes are algorithms (and datastructures), and every human programmer -- and all their friends and family -- have to eat. So there's a reasonable l

A theory: recipes are algorithms (and datastructures), and every human programmer -- and all their friends and family -- have to eat. So there's a reasonable likelihood that programmers will (consciously or unconsciously) pattern match that and develop systems to assist. If I remember correctly, Doug Engelbart's Demo[1] included a feature to organize a shopping list. And the history of Elasticsearch[2] also began with recipes. [1] - https://www.dougengelbart.org/content/view/209/448/ https://www.dougengelbart.org/content/view/209/448/ [2] - https://www.elastic.co/about/history-of-elasticsearch https://www.elastic.co/about/history-of-elasticsearch