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[–] Mathium05@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

it just is man. Simple code may not have a style, but anything more complex, no, it has a style and has a lot of room for the how. Like think about it for a second, there are so many way of doing things, object oriented, functional, imperative, etc. And a programmer can mix and match those as much as they see fit. Deny it all you like, but code has a style, and is creative work. We should protect creative works.

[–] Ptsf@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Mathium05@piefed.blahaj.zone 0 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

And you're wrong, it is a form of creative expression that has style and form.

[–] Ptsf@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Nah, you're wrong. Code is almost exclusively implementations with a final optimized form for a task akin to a recipe.