WTF is "symbolic programming"?

Many universities have a "symbolic programming" course, and a search for the term returns 22,500 results on Google, but Wikipedia doesn't have an article for it and I can't find a description anywhere.

So, does /prog/ know what symbolic programming is?

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I've been trolled by this before, and it still pisses me off whenever I fucking see it. Please tell me that you're a fucking EXPERT TROLL who just fucking knows exactly how to piss off a goddamn fucking faggot grammar nazi.

Exponential trolling holy fucking shit.