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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