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If one wrote such a description, it would form the source code for nginx. The source code for a program is a description of the program's architecture, in all o
by marssaxman 10y ago
If one wrote such a description, it would form the source code for nginx. The source code for a program is a description of the program's architecture, in all of its details.
Do not mistake the source code, for the program itself! The documents programmers spend all our time working on are really just specs; the actual program is an artifact produced by a compiler.
- fleitz 10y agoThis isn't entirely true, you could compress the source code which would generate a dictionary (vocabulary) which could be used with the description (compressed output) to recreate the source code. You see comp sci is so advanced we don't even bother writing descriptions of our creations, we allow the software we've written previously create those descriptions for us, along with the dictionary used to understand the description, and then use another program to understand that description for us.
- marssaxman 10y agoNice.