Note on On the Cruelty of Really Teaching Computing Science via University of Texas in Austin
the program is an abstract symbol manipulator, which can be turned into a concrete one by supplying a computer to it. After all, it is no longer the purpose of programs to instruct our machines; these days, it is the purpose of machines to execute our programs.
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