What is a programmer?

2019-03-17

This is all but my own definition...

An individual that produces an interpretable record of information describing a transformation.

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Individual	can a computer be a programmer??? ultimately binds into free will...
Interpretable	that's the difference between a recipe and scramble eggs... Scramble eggs contain all the information about how to make scramble eggs (given a certain context), but it's scrambled in in such a way that we could consider as non interpretable for most practical purposes.
Record	is somebody doing an air painting, even masterfully, a painter. I would argue not, I would describe him as an artist but not a painter. The act production is as fundamental to the programmer as it is to the painter.
Information	that's a hard one....
Describing a transformation	I think this is a hard classifier, what distinguishes a program from everything else (we can't say data there, as programs are data)

What is a program?

Well...

~ an interpretable record of information describing a transformation

Does the program need be runnable? Debatable

Does the program need be unambiguous, I argue not.

An entity that takes a set of inputs (including a program) and produces outputs in accordance to the transformation described in said program.

A cook would be the computer that would interpret a cooking recipe.