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It's code, but not a program - there is no algorithm. Something resembling an algorithm is on the reader side.

• exe34 2y ago
  by that logic, programs have no algorithms either, they have to be executed by the hardware.
  • thrw42A8N 2y ago
    There is a difference between a series of instructions that maps to machine code nearly directly, and a data format like an image, or factory templates. The point about algorithms stands - it's not that programs don't contain any because a machine interprets them. I'm referring to the simple fact that program code can be expressed as a flow diagram - but try doing that with a CAD file. You can't, it's declarative in nature, not a series of steps and decisions.
    • exe34 2y ago
      You're trying to say that data isn't code? you haven't tried lisp, have you?