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Re:Wind Knitting Factory by charcircuit on Thursday July 03, 2025 @08:55PM (#44460327)
By that logic any instructions is programming and everyone on earth are programmers.
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Re:Wind Knitting Factory by gbear605 on Thursday July 03, 2025 @11:40PM (#44460965)
I’m not sure that I’d say that it’s programming, but it is a pretty neat DSL
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Re:Wind Knitting Factory by yjftsjthsd-h on Thursday July 03, 2025 @11:43PM (#44460977)
Instructions to machines probably are. Instructions to humans aren't because humans interpret things themselves and exercise free will in execution.
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Re:Wind Knitting Factory by 2muchcoffeeman on Friday July 04, 2025 @12:59AM (#44461245)
Written knitting instructions would benefit from a bit of standardisation and a system for depicting unusual stitches.
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Re:Wind Knitting Factory by y-curious on Thursday July 03, 2025 @10:41PM (#44460715)
Sources say God is actually a software engineer
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Re:Wind Knitting Factory by danielrico on Friday July 04, 2025 @12:56AM (#44461237)
https://xkcd.com/224
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Re:Wind Knitting Factory by taneq on Friday July 04, 2025 @02:33AM (#44461702)
To an extent, yes (to the first part). For instance, the list of events scheduled for a performance is called a program.
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Re:Wind Knitting Factory by MangoToupe on Friday July 04, 2025 @03:19AM (#44461981)
Sure, why not?
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