How do you translate "instruction" into English?

Question

Programming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JEkiHHUOFs&index=...
this guy says that an instruction is a statement (there is no hint of this in the translator, it is translated as an operator). The translator says that an instruction is an instruction. Well, why confuse people already at the first stage of training? what is right, what is wrong is unclear. Explain what is the problem

Answer 1

Philosophically, any statement or expression is an instruction to the virtual machine
www.2ality.com/2012/09/expressions-vs-statements.html Blocher hacked
the phrase from here, apparently www.w3schools.com/js/js_statements.asp

In HTML, JavaScript statements are "instructions" to be "executed" by the web browser.

Answer 2

Because not all authors of videos on YouTube are competent.

Answer 3

it doesn't matter, the main thing is that the meaning is clear
that what he calls "instructions" are really statements, I would translate this as "expressions", expressions, in turn, consist of operators, variables / constants, functions, etc.
The word instruction is rather more applicable to low-level languages ​​such as assembler - processor instructions.

Answer 4

Philosophically
At least that's what they teach in classical textbooks.

Answer 5

statement - operator
operator - operation (+, -, *, /)
expression - expression
assertion - statement
condition - condition
instruction - instruction
operation - operation (action)

while (cond) {
    f1();
    f2(); f3();
}

The while statement with the cond condition contains three statements in its body, each of which is a function call.