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Lotta people haranguing about the use of the phrase "computer codes", it's just a very old/anachronistic way of referring to a computer program. Most of the peo
by dljsjr 6y ago
Lotta people haranguing about the use of the phrase "computer codes", it's just a very old/anachronistic way of referring to a computer program. Most of the people I know who still use that language are Fortran devs.
Just an old fashioned way of saying "programs".
- JJMcJ 6y agoMore in the scientific world, more in Britain than in the USA.
- dljsjr 6y agoPerhaps. I'm in the US, and I hear it from old-school devs sometimes.
- DoingIsLearning 6y agoI think it's also context/industry specific, it's still pretty common terminology in Aerospace/Avionics/Defense even among younger people.
- lostcolony 6y agoThat might explain it; I mostly have heard "computer codes" (pluralized with an 's' at the end, rather than treating 'computer code' as a non-granular catch all for any amount of written code, much like a liquid; "water" is any amount of water, since it requires greater definition to talk about the singular, is it a drop, a molecule, etc. And referencing "waters" is an archaic reference to separate bodies of water, more commonly replaced with 'seas' or 'oceans' or similar) from Indian programmers, and there fairly frequently. Maybe it's an academic influence from Britain, that has gotten dropped with the British programmers I've met, but still influenced the schooling of the Indian ones.
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- itronitron 6y agoYeah, it's preferred terminology by people that share their work as source code and not as applications.