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Code Is Not Prose

• thesuperbigfrog 4y ago
  "don’t get caught up in the idea that you’re writing or editing a novel." Code can be prose: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare_Programming_Language#Example_code https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare_Programming_Langua... Literate programming also views code as a form of prose and could be considered a predecessor to programming notebooks (Jupyter notebooks and similar). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming Not all code is prose, but some code can be.