This article prompts a staccato of reactions in me. The first is to observe the Argument of the Beard. Next is to think about how telling your VCR to start re

This article prompts a staccato of reactions in me. The first is to observe the Argument of the Beard. Next is to think about how telling your VCR to start recording whatever's on TV at 3pm and stop at 4pm is known as programming it. After that I get lost in a quagmire of musing whether SQL is a programming language. After that I start thinking about Turing completeness, followed quickly by the observation that there are things that are Turing complete that I would not consider to be programming languages. And then at some point I realize we're just idly shuffling words and the meanings of words around the table. That's where I suddenly lose interest because I've really got no reason to have a problem with the current vernacular meaning of the term.