The phrase "a kind of program" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing a specific type or category of program, often in a general or informal context.
Example: "The software we developed is a kind of program that helps users manage their tasks more efficiently."
Alternatives: "a type of program" or "a sort of program".
It's not a computer, but it's certainly a kind of program.
And the growth of knowledge learning is something like that a kind of program induction of program construction, program synthesis.
This proved to be a kind of program note that ran in lieu of subtitles, talking about what was happening in the music.
But it could have been discovered by someone deliberately seeking the list data, or by a kind of program used by spammers to scour the Web for new e-mail addresses to bombard.
Last year, the festival recreated one of its original 1978 programs -- an experimental event with performers in black polo shirts scraping the surfaces of balloons -- and it stood out as a kind of program that wouldn't happen today.
Online: When you talk about writing The Baroque Cycle, it sometimes sounds as if you're talking about creating a kind of program (e.g. your references to data management problems, talk about the centrality of a yarn that holds together different data sets).
But the basic idea, which I'll motivate here by just giving you examples of a couple of scientific theories which you might be familiar with, is again, this idea that learning is a kind of theory building which formally is a kind of programming or writing programs, modifying your programs, writing code libraries or something.
In the two years leading up to Capital Cities Communications' purchase of the network in 1985, ABC had been on a long bender, a kind of programming version of a lost weekend.
SDL, or Specification and Description Language, is a kind of programming language used to build system process.
The Teen Clubs are a kind of support program for HIV-infected children and teens affected by the virus.
