[kickling]

Yes, that's how I usually explain programming to someone unexperienced with it. A computer programming language is usually more strictly defined, but depending on compiler and architecture results can differ in computer progamming as well.

[brigandish]

Speaking of which, a spec for recipes that was a previous Show HN[1], Cooklang[2]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28997309

[2] https://github.com/cooklang/spec

[yesbabyyes]

This is especially true with the programming language Chef: https://esolangs.org/wiki/chef