Meaning and Context in Computer Programs

This article answers questions related to meaning and context in computer programs. Answering these questions is important to understanding how to share domain knowledge among programmers using the source code as the medium. Whether debugging or adding new features to a program, programmers must read the code to understand what the program is doing. From this article, the programmers must also know how the problem domain is represented in the code, so they can be certain that their changes to the source code won’t make the program work in unexpected ways.