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Code is not the same as a recipe. Recipes are more like specifications. They leave out the implementation. Code has structural and algorithmic details that just

Code is not the same as a recipe. Recipes are more like specifications. They leave out the implementation. Code has structural and algorithmic details that just have no comparable concept in recipes.

Supermancho 5y ago
> Code has structural and algorithmic details that just have no comparable concept in recipes. Why do you think that? A compiler uses human readable code to create machine code, with arbitrary optimizations and choices.
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rjbwork 5y ago
>They leave out the implementation. Code has structural and algorithmic details that just have no comparable concept in recipes. That is really quite debatable in some contexts. Declarative languages like Prolog, SQL, etc. declare what they want and the system figures out how to produce it. Much like a recipe, really.