Source code is how one person explains another what the computer is supposed to do ..
Roberto Di Cosmo quoting Donald Knuth
(Some of us are following the Software Heritage Symposium and summit)
https://webcast.unesco.org/events/2023-02-07-software-heritage/
Ah yes, that was great..
@EC_OSPO The quote from Knuth is quite close in spirit to what Abelson et al wrote in SICP:
"First, we want to establish the idea that a computer language is not just a way of getting a computer to perform operations but rather that it is a novel formal medium for expressing ideas about methodology. Thus, programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute."