> With instructions that involve physical properties (such as how to
> cook spaghetti, or how to speak effectively) the instructions alone
> don't get you very far. You need labour and possibly raw materials.
> 
> With source (or object) code, the instructions are pretty-much everything.
> 
One could argue that unless you can compile the stuff, you can't do very
much. Compiling is not necessarily straight forward, although I presume
you could take the src and use it to write something you can compile
yourself.
gaby

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