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Programming in the wide sense of any list of things to do.

Dynamic because it sounds nice.

Name was chosen because US Secretary of Defense at the time hated anything that smelled of research, so they found another name.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_programming#History

Remember, what most of on this board do is computer programming, or perhaps software programming.

The people who decide what songs to play on the radio. They are programmers also.



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