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Teaching a rock to think by being painfully specific about everything.
means Writing precise instructions a computer follows exactly, which is both the magic and the maddening part.
from From Greek pro- (before) plus gramma (something written) — a program is literally written-in-advance, the schedule a machine obeys.
First programmerAda Lovelace wrote an algorithm in 1843.
Bug originA real moth jammed a 1947 computer relay.
Mostly debuggingWriting code is the easy ten percent.