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By that logic any instructions is programming and everyone on earth are programmers.


Instructions to machines probably are. Instructions to humans aren't because humans interpret things themselves and exercise free will in execution.


Written knitting instructions would benefit from a bit of standardisation and a system for depicting unusual stitches.


I’m not sure that I’d say that it’s programming, but it is a pretty neat DSL


To an extent, yes (to the first part). For instance, the list of events scheduled for a performance is called a program.


Sources say God is actually a software engineer



Sure, why not?




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