Re: Where does programming begin?

* Tom Impelluso:

Curious to know opinions...

Programming is the art of instructing a computer how to make decisions.

If there are no decisions expressed /at the abstraction level one employs to instruct the computer/, then there is no programming.

But mostly "programming" is an operatively defined, that you're programming if you're using what most people agree is a programming language.

Cheers, & hth.,

- Alf

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