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With regard to source code(s), I hear it exclusively from scientists, regardless of nationality.

None of the coders I've worked with (and I'm in Berlin) have put the s on the end of code.

Quite a few will use "he" to describe inanimate objects, though: "I spilled coffee on the table and now he is wet", that kind of thing.

(This is still better than my German, which is embarassing given how long I've been here)



I think it makes sense, like a scientist might think of their codes as discrete things, because one code was written for each experiment. The work-product is the experiment, the codes are just little things that make it happen.


In scientific computing, they tend to say "code" where the rest of us would say "program".


Programs? I rarely hear it these days. It's all "apps". ;)




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