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the recipe; everything else is just the finished, unreadable cake.
means the human-readable instructions a programmer writes, which get translated into the machine gibberish computers actually run.
from from software's earliest days, when programmers distinguished the 'source' they wrote in a language like assembly or C from the compiled binary a machine could execute — the origin point in a chain of translation.
open vs closedwhether you can read it defines an entire industry
git blametells you exactly who to email angrily
comments rotcode changes, comments quietly lie forever
compiled awaythe code you write isnt the code that runs