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> I shall use the word programming to denote the whole activity of design and implementation of programmed solutions.

Isn't this definition circular, using "programmed" in defining "programming"?

I think for circularity you'd need a pair of definitions -- "programming: making a program" and "program: the result of programming". In this case, we already know what a program (or a "programmed solution") is -- that is, we can tell that something is a program without necessarily knowing how it was made. So the definition at least provides some new information on top of that -- the name for the activity of creating programs.[1] Also, by including the concept of "design", it lets you know when the author says "programming", he doesn't just mean the acts of writing source code, or typing it in.

[1] You could have probably guessed that the name was going to be "programming", but it might not have been.

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