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Command lines are programs. Keystrokes on a calculator are programs. Cooking recipes are programs. It’s deliberate antagonistic widening of a word’s imprecise
by tgv 2y ago
Command lines are programs. Keystrokes on a calculator are programs. Cooking recipes are programs.
It’s deliberate antagonistic widening of a word’s imprecise meaning, possibly to get some notoriety. Academic clickbait.
- esperent 2y agoWell, I would argue that cooking recipes are algorithms, at least. In fact, they were probably the very first example of an algorithm that was given to you in your first Intro to Algorithms class.
- tgv 2y agoBut not programs. Not in the sense of SIGPLAN.
- ben_w 2y agoI'm sure I've seen "cooking recipes are programs" back in the late 80s…