> People, things, events are "programmed", one speaks of "inputs" and "outputs", of feedback loops, variables, parameters, processes, and so on, until eventually all contact with concrete situations is abstracted away.[^weizenbaum]
As bots are written in code, they are based on the features and constraints of *programming logic*.
To unpack this term, we will speak about:
* loops
* if/else statements
* variables
### Loops
A loop ...
```
for n in range(5):
print('ha' * n)
> ha
> haha
> hahaha
> hahahaha
> hahahahaha
```
### if/else statements
### Variables
## Footnotes
[^weizenbaum]: Joseph Weizenbaum (1976), *Computer Power and Human Reason*
