Programming on Artur Rios Labhttps://lab.artur-rios.tech/tags/programming/Recent content in Programming on Artur Rios LabHugoen-usMon, 19 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000What Is Programming? A Short History of Telling Machines What to Dohttps://lab.artur-rios.tech/fundamentals/what-is-programming/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000https://lab.artur-rios.tech/fundamentals/what-is-programming/<p>Ask ten developers what programming is and you will get ten answers: &ldquo;writing code&rdquo;, &ldquo;solving problems&rdquo;, &ldquo;telling a computer what to do&rdquo;. All of them are true, and none of them is quite enough. This article tries to pin the idea down, and then follows it through roughly two centuries of history — because most of what feels arbitrary about programming today makes sense once you know where it came from.</p>