Re:Ask HN: “code” or “codes”?
by dusted on Monday October 03, 2022 @03:56AM
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I've heard people referring to code as "codes" which seems silly to me for some reason..
I kind of dislike both terms, "codes" seems to refer to each individual statement in isolation, which makes zero sense at all.
"The code" I think, refers to the entirety of a program/function/system, and makes a bit more sense.
However, code suggests something that is difficult to understand, which is the opposite of what's actually going on..
You're not "coding", you're writing a program or even programming.. If anyone is coding it's the compiler or assembler translating your easliy understood programming text into the binary machineCODE, which is actually annoying and hard to understand.
Re:Ask HN: “code” or “codes”?
by breadj on Monday October 03, 2022 @02:15PM
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I've thought about this, too, but it's sort of like the "hacker" term in pop culture. What do you think might be better one/two word descriptors? Program source, maybe?
Re:Ask HN: “code” or “codes”?
by dusted on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @07:13AM
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In Danish I refer to the it as the source text, "kildetekst", in English I use "source" mostly, program source or source code are a bit long feeling to me.
I kind of dislike both terms, "codes" seems to refer to each individual statement in isolation, which makes zero sense at all. "The code" I think, refers to the entirety of a program/function/system, and makes a bit more sense.
However, code suggests something that is difficult to understand, which is the opposite of what's actually going on..
You're not "coding", you're writing a program or even programming.. If anyone is coding it's the compiler or assembler translating your easliy understood programming text into the binary machineCODE, which is actually annoying and hard to understand.