I know that HN policy is never to ask if someone read TFA but ... the focus of TFA is much more on how there used to (at least) two distinct tasks which got di

I know that HN policy is never to ask if someone read TFA but ... the focus of TFA is much more on how there used to (at least) two distinct tasks which got different names (and had socio-economic and gender implications); following the development of "automatic programming" (what we would call compilation today), this distinction went away, but the two terms stuck around.