Also coming to mind is the well-known notation for dancers ... I believe it's called Laban notation. At 09:46 AM 7/29/97 -0400, you wrote:

One argument that is made by the government when trying to defend its export restrictions---which are really publishing restrictions---on cryptographic software is that they are not trying to regulate the communication of information but rather the functionality of the software.

Now this has never made any sense to me, but that does not mean that the argument can just be ignored.

So I have been looking for examples of texts that are analogous to computer programs but that are executed by something other than a computer.

So far the best example that I can think of, and I doubt that one can find a better one, is the instructions given to a drill team.

I have looked at the drill manual for the U.S. Naval Academy that is located at <http://www.nadn.navy.mil/MISLO/DRILL/drillman.html> and it sounds exactly like a manual for some rather specialized computer language dealing with mathematical objects that can be subjected to various rotations and other transformations.