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by jimbokun 3380 days ago
As programmers, we are the automaters. Programming is precisely taking ill-specified tasks and automating their completion by a computer.
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technically, that's business analysis and it's part and parcel of most day-to-day programming jobs. Automating processes does not inherently require typing logical statements into a text file - only our current conception of "how to tell a machine what to do" requires this.