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Explaining what you want to a machine too literal to guess and too fast to argue back.
means The practice of writing instructions that tell a computer exactly what steps to take to accomplish something.
from Rooted in Greek 'programma' (a public notice or written order), from 'pro-' (before) and 'graphein' (to write). The word moved through French into English meaning a written plan or schedule — a theater 'program' listing acts in order. When early computing needed a word for feeding a machine a sequence of steps to execute, 'program' and 'programming' were already sitting right there, built for exactly that job: writing out, in advance, what should happen and in what order.
- first programmer
- Ada Lovelace, writing algorithms for a machine never built
- bug origin
- a real moth stuck in a 1947 relay
- 90-90 rule
- last 10 percent of code takes 90 percent of time
- semicolons
- missing one can halt an entire program