His entire intro is dumb. If you simply define object code as stuff a compiler emits and source code as stuff a compiler processes, than obviously every piece o

His entire intro is dumb. If you simply define object code as stuff a compiler emits and source code as stuff a compiler processes, than obviously every piece of data is both source and object code. That's the essence of the von Neumann architecture (and, incidentally, that's also why stack buffer overflows are possible). Repeat after me: data is code.