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Towards An Ontology Of Software: A Requirements Engineering Perspective
The identity of code is syntactic
Let us start with computer code. We take computer code as a well-formed3 se- quence of instructions in a Turing-complete language. Since such instructions are mere sequences of symbols, the identity of code is defined accordingly: two codes are identi- cal if and only if they…
Code is not necessarily an artifact
In the light of these observations, a code is not necessarily an artifact. If we acci- dentally delete a line of code, the result might still be a computer code. It will not, however, be “intentionally made to serve a given purpose”. Moreover, we can clearly conceive the…