Where does programming begin?



May I ask for opinions?

I have programmed in FORTRAN, C and just a bit of C++ (enough
to scare the hell out of me - but that is not the issue).

I now hear people say:
I program in matlab.
I program in SecondLife.
I program using LabView.
I program in <insert some established program here: one that enables user
manipulation or interaction>


One person, I recall, from years back, told me he programmed
in Inventor (that older object oriented API to OpenGL from SGI).

When I asked him about it, I thought that he had meant he compiled
the codes himself. Instead, he created the objects in a CAD package
and read them into an already established scene graph.

So I am curious to know if there is some standard definition of
programming?

Is it relative?
The "closer" one is to coding at the operating system level, or the
closer one is to assembly, the more it is called "programming"?

Curious to know opinions...

thanks!
tom


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