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IMO, software's code is the ink of the book.

Does the book have something to say? or is it just a papermill-filler?

Same question applies to software..

re: anecdote: .PDF written in python: PDF is actually (interpreted) code. Postcript's variant. Very powerful and not-very-human-friendly - you know, reversed-polish-notations and matrixes all-over. Any machine may generate it very, very easy.. as long as it knows how. But.. Nobody has ever written that by hand.. hence.. omnipotent coding-generator writes python to write postscript. is that a Bitter lesson? or irony? or both?