Thus spake Glen... > > Just to be clear, programming is the _act_ of constructing a program. > As an act, it is not a formalism. However, the program produced is a > construct within a particular formalism. To boot, that formalism is a > mathematical formalism. >
Hmmm.... not sure about that Glen. Seems to me that your "formalism" can be pretty freely applied. So give me a specific example - when I'm coding Python what is the specific formalism that I am using? Please feel free to use equations. Or does your formalism just mean "something with a syntax"? In which case French is math as well, as is English, as is music as is (continue ad nauseam)... R
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