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Programming Languages: The Essence of Computer Science Robert HarperCarnegie Mellon University October, 2002 CS Is About Programming How to build systems. Better, faster, cheaper. Reliable, maintainable, extensible. Evaluating and comparing systems. Performance, behavior, security. Compliance, usability. What can and can’t be done. Algorithms and complexity. Programming Is Linguistic Programming is an explanatory activity. To yourself, now and in the future. To whoever has to read your code. To the compiler, which has to make it run. Explanations require language. To state clearly what is goi