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Code is Data would like to have a word

Code may be data but data isn't code.

Data is code that prints/evaluates to itself.

In some programming languages (such as PostScript, where evaluating as itself vs being executed, is a flag separate from the value's type, and can be changed by the cvlit and cvx operators), it is.

The higher-ups might be unhappy if you use that excuse after committing a gigabyte of customer data.

Executable data was never a good idea.

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