Where does program collide?

In biology, the genetic or developmental program is the idea, pressed by Ernst Mayr, that an organism's inherited information works like a stored set of instructions that directs development and behaviour toward an end without any conscious foresight. Mayr's 1961 Cause and effect in biology used it to separate proximate causes (how the coded program executes in a given individual) from ultimate causes (how natural selection wrote the program over evolutionary time). The referent is coded hereditary information treated as a control routine for the organism, and it has nothing to do with a building's room schedule or a line of software beyond the shared idea of instructions laid down in advance.[1]

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The coded hereditary information treated as instructions for development and behaviour

Recovery means

Not applicable

Measured by

Inferred from how genotype constrains and directs an organism's development and behaviour across proximate and ultimate levels

In architecture, the program (or brief) is the organised statement of what a building must do before anyone draws it: the required spaces, their sizes and relationships, the activities to be housed, and the goals and constraints the client sets. William Peña's Problem Seeking casts programming as a search for the problem: a disciplined analysis that precedes and frames design, as opposed to problem-solving. The referent is a document and process defining design requirements, unrelated to an inherited genetic routine or a piece of executable code except that all three fix instructions ahead of the thing they govern.[2]

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The set of required spaces, activities, relationships, and goals a building must satisfy

Recovery means

Not applicable

Measured by

Compiled through programming analysis of goals, facts, needs, and concepts, and checked against the finished design