Programming is writing, writing recognized as prior and provisional, the detailed announcement of a performance which may soon take place (on the screen, in the mind), an indication of what to read and how. Programming will reconfigure the process of Writing and incorporate 'programming' in its technical sense, including the algorithms of text generators, textual movies, all the 'performance-design' publication and production aspects of text-making. Such a necessary inflection of language art practice may, perhaps, be further understood by contrast with the usual mis-assimilation of programming to writing, in which algorithms are seen as (new) 'tools' or (relatively insignificant) 'game-playing' devices at the casual disposal of the masterly writer, who then edits for publication. Instead, I say, writers are always already programmers (coders of inherently provisional scripts, subject to development, implementation and execution) and they must now be prepared to extend and deepen their practice in ways which embrace the continual -- responsible, creative -- reconfiguration of the delivery medium itself.