1. code - Noun
2. code - Verb
3. Code - Proper noun
A body of law, sanctioned by legislation, in which the rules of law to be specifically applied by the courts are set forth in systematic form; a compilation of laws by public authority; a digest.
Any system of rules or regulations relating to one subject; as, the medical code, a system of rules for the regulation of the professional conduct of physicians; the naval code, a system of rules for making communications at sea means of signals.
Source: Webster's dictionaryReal programmers can write assembly code in any language. Larry Wall
When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it. Frédéric Bastiat
I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world. Malcolm Bradbury
Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor. William O. Douglas
If you just want to use the system, instead of hacking on its internals, you don't need source code. Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. Brian Kernighan