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A list of instructions a computer follows literally, obeying you to the letter and ruining your day.

means A set of written instructions — for a computer, a show, or an event — that lays out what happens, in what order.

from From Greek 'programma,' meaning a public written notice, built from 'pro-' (before) and 'graphein' (to write) — literally something written beforehand. It first meant a written public notice or edict, then came to mean a printed listing of events (a theater 'program'), and only in the 20th century did it jump to mean a sequence of coded instructions for a machine — same idea, written beforehand, just now aimed at silicon instead of an audience.

origin
from Greek for written publicly beforehand
first one
Ada Lovelace wrote it in 1843
bug origin
named after an actual moth in a relay
brutal truth
does exactly what you typed, not what you meant
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