> Is it just me, or is this usage very typical of the scientific community? It is a well-established tradition in scientific programming to use "code" as a cou

> Is it just me, or is this usage very typical of the scientific community? It is a well-established tradition in scientific programming to use "code" as a count noun. It's even acknowledged in the Jargon file: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/C/code.html http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/C/code.html I find it jarring too, despite being a scientific programmer myself, but you learn to go with it. It is a tradition that this linguistic community has established, and there's no reason to rail against it.