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Why does code have to be "read like a book" to be considered "continuous text"? Of course code is continuous text.
by lgrapenthin 5y ago
Why does code have to be "read like a book" to be considered "continuous text"? Of course code is continuous text.
- tasogare 5y agoNo it's not: a book is generally read from cover to cover (at least fiction) while code is split amongst various files. One is free to read them in any order, which is the opposite of continuous text.
- lgrapenthin 5y agoAnd like with files, you are also free to read chapters of a book in any order. But files have little to do with lines, no? Of course a function definition in every sane language is continuous text, even though you "are free" to read it backwards or starting in the middle.