Here is my 2 pennies worth:
My personal minimal definition of programming is
'writing a program', where 'program' is a description containing
a 'while' loop (i.e. a loop for which the number of iterations
is not necessarily known when it starts).
'For' loops, which always execute a number of iterations known at
their start (such as iterating over the elements of a container)
are sort of a borderline case.
This is for programming-in-the-small.
For programming-in-the-large, I consider the critical notion
that of design. You are writing a program when you have performed
a design, i.e., have performed a planned hierarchical decomposition
of the whole into programming-in-the-small parts and have applied
the principle of interfaces and information hiding to these.
Very roughly speaking, of course.
Lutz
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