Howard Chu @ Symas on Nostr: nprofile1q…gjk76 by your logic, any written text is a program, which is nonsense. A ...

nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqpc7rrsl0p4gvtshg393566ajt4nt5l3wm458a7pctqnv6n75twvsmgjk76 (nprofile…jk76) by your logic, any written text is a program, which is nonsense. A program automates a process, in a compact form. This requires, at least, a language with looping constructs. And conditional operators, otherwise loops would always be infinite.

ASCII is a code for representing information. The program that runs in a terminal to display info on a screen is the actual set of instructions.

As Wirth used to say: algorithms + data structures = programs. Don't confuse data with code.