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It used to be the program's purpose to instruct our computers; it became the computer's purpose to execute our programs.

Edsger Dijkstra
Purpose, Computer, Program
Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (1976). “A Discipline of Programming”, Prentice Hall
It used to be the program's purpose to instruct our computers; it became the computer's purpose to execute our programs.