''(Spawned from TheMatrix - "You think that's ''air'' you're breathing?")'' Recommended usage ... * To someone writing overly detailed specifications, "you think that's code you're writing?" Meaning: stop writing text and help me write that in code. * To someone carelessly writing code, "you think that's code you're writing?" Meaning: give some thought to those who will have to read this, our most definitive document. * To someone writing code, "you think that's code you're writing?" Meaning: You are controlling a nuclear reactor, entertaining a five-year old, flying a 500-seater aircraft, keeping people in gaol (jail) , dispensing drugs, talking to a human being. * To a grammarian who insists on correct semi-colon usage. Meaning: The pedantry is only valuable to a point. * Among friends. * To someone marking up an HTML document but thinks it's programming, "you think that's code you're writing?" (rather than markup). Meaning: Those are hints, not instructions, and the browser is entitled to render the content however it damn well likes, so quit trying to force it. * If preceded with: Do you think my coding faster, or better... has anything to do with my IDEs in this place? * To a UML addict ... ---- ''Sounds like a ZenSlap.'' It is kinda like BoldlyGoWhereSomeoneHasGoneBefore. Not the same meaning of course, but a quotation reworked to indicate something else. -- AndreSlabber. What strikes me as the amusing part: Yes, code is code, even if the hardware it's running on is simulated by TheMatrix. -- DanielKnapp ---- See also TheSourceCodeIsTheDesign, StopTryingToCodeMeAndCodeMe.