Re: database systems and organizational intelligence

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"Alfredo Novoa" <alfredo_at_ncs.es> wrote in message news:e4330f45.0405270315.638f4939_at_posting.google.com...
> "x" <x-false_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> > I think Alfredo calls data the data that is not code (data given as
imput to
> > the code or produced by the code).
>
> No, data produced by processing code is data, but it does not mean
> that code is data.

OK.
As you have seen, your statement that "Everybody knows" is not true.

> > In this case I'm curious how he define code (he cannot call it data).
>
> We don't need to do that because dictionaries already exist.
>
> code
> <software> Instructions for a computer in some programming language,
> often machine language. The word "code" is often used to distinguish
> instructions from data (e.g. "The code is marked 'read-only'") whereas
> "software" is used in contrast with "hardware" and may consist of more
> than just code.
>
> http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?query=code
>
>
> In computer programming, the word code refers to instructions to a
> computer in a programming language. In this usage, the noun "code"
> typically stands for source code, and the verb "to code" means to
> write source code, to program. This usage may have originated when the
> first symbolic languages were developed and were punched onto cards as
> "codes".
>
> Engineers often use the word "code" to mean a single program. They
> might say "I wrote a code" or "I have two codes". No software engineer
> or computer scientist would say that. They would say "I wrote some
> code" or "I have two programs". Since English allows virtually any
> word to be used as a verb, a programmer, or coder might also say I
> coded a program; but, since a code can stand for multiple concepts,
> that coder might say I hard-coded it right into the program, as
> opposed to the metaprogramming model, which might allow multiple
> re-uses of the same piece of code to accomplish multiple goals. Thus,
> the coder might instead soft-code a concept, which ensures that it
> will have a longer lifespan than a hard-coded concept.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code

Well, I think the engineers misused the word 'code' ... A code is a set of rules (of behavior, of encoding) but is also used to denote the result of encoding.

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