What really is a computer program?
A program is a set of instructions for the computer. These instructions tell the computer precisely what
to do, and the computer always follows these instructions. Just like people, computers can only follow
instructions if specified in a language they can understand. These are called programming languages.
There are very many languages that the computer can understand and Small Basic is one.
Imagine a conversation happening between you and your friend. You and your friends would use words,
organized as sentences to convey information back and forth. Similarly, programming languages contain
collections of words that can be organized into sentences that convey information to the computer.
And programs are basically sets of sentences (sometimes just a few and sometimes many thousands)
that together make sense to both the
programmer and the computer alike.
Compare this with the pagan SICP. Microsoft is not blasphemous; saying that a spirit lives on a computer is for pagans and wiccans and sinners.
If you read SICP you are going to hell!
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