On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Bob La Quey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Agreed. Let's try and figure out what programming is, > and what problem it is trying to solve. I would be > satisfied with a decent statement of that.
Translating? Making human wants known to the machine. Successfully writing out what you want the machine to do, in the machine's language. So, programming is inherently functional. We don't program computers to tell them we love them or just to say, "I had a good day". We program to make something happen. Programming is action. Though I suppose sometimes, when we program, we're just stating facts. But always facts relevant to what we're about to tell the computer to do. So... programming is telling a machine what to do? Seems pretty straightforward. -todd -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
