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Asked: May 13, 20262026-05-13T09:04:05+00:00 2026-05-13T09:04:05+00:00

I hear a couple of people using the term ‘programming’ rather than configuring, for

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I hear a couple of people using the term ‘programming’ rather than configuring, for example:

Have you already programmed Apache’s
Virtual Hosts configuration correctly, with
ServerName named FOO?

Program your .vimrc first before
starting Vim the first time.

The last is a word-by-word citation from my teacher, but I didn’t dare to correct him. Is it OK to use ‘programming’ instead of ‘configuring’?

IMHO this sounds very ugly.

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    2026-05-13T09:04:06+00:00Added an answer on May 13, 2026 at 9:04 am

    Well.. ordinary people “program” their VCR, Tivo etc. So for ordinary people program == configure. Note that even programmers don’t say “program the javascript”. Instead people use words like “develop” or “write” for writing programs in the programming sense.

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