Show HN: CreepyCodeCollection- a Nonsense Collection of Disgusting Codes

Re:Show HN: CreepyCodeCollection- a Nonsense Collection of D... by greydius on Thursday December 22, 2016 @05:53AM (#13236406)

Why do some people call programs "codes"? I hear this a lot from mathematicians and physicists.

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Re:Show HN: CreepyCodeCollection- a Nonsense Collection of D... by jhbadger on Thursday December 22, 2016 @07:02AM (#13236683)

Because the act of writing a program is known as "coding".

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Re:Show HN: CreepyCodeCollection- a Nonsense Collection of D... by greydius on Thursday December 22, 2016 @11:42AM (#13238396)

I always thought it was "programming".

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Re:Show HN: CreepyCodeCollection- a Nonsense Collection of D... by stedalus on Thursday December 22, 2016 @12:58PM (#13239009)

I was once a physicist and I never understood it either. Maybe because a lot of software they produce is a blob of code?

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