Programming for Cats
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The 'Programming for Cats' website is introduced, but the discussion revolves around a critique of its definition of programming, highlighting a philosophical debate about the nature of programming.
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That is not what programming is. Programming has nothing intrinsically to do with devices. We can, in a particular application of programming, be concerned with the control of a device as the domain, but that is not what programming is per se. You can program with paper and pencil.