Codes

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From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  codes n. [scientific computing] Programs. This usage is common in
     people who hack supercomputers and heavy-duty {number-crunching}, rare
     to unknown elsewhere (if you say "codes" to hackers outside scientific
     computing, their first association is likely to be "and cyphers").
  
  



From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  codes
       
          1.  Programs.  This usage is common among scientific
          computing people who use {supercumputer}s for heavy-duty
          {number crunching}.
       
          2.  Something to do with {cryptography}.
       
          [{Jargon File}]
       
          (1994-10-28)
       
       

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  CODES, Les Cing Codes; French law. The five codes.
       2. These codes are, 1st. Code Civil, which is divided into three books; 
  book 1, treats of persons, and of the enjoyment and privation of civil 
  rights; book 2, of property and its different modifications; book 3, of the 
  different ways of acquiring property. One of the most perspicuous and able, 
  commentators on this code is Toullier, frequently cited in this work. 
       3.-2d. Code de procedure civille, which is divided into two parts. 
  Part 1, is divided into five books; 1. of justices of the. peace; 2. of 
  inferior tribunals; 3. of royal courts; 4. of extraordinary means of 
  proceeding; 5. of execution and judgment. Part 2, is divided into three 
  books; 1. of tender and consignation; 2. of process in relation to the 
  opening of a succession; 3. of arbitration. 
       4.-3d. Code de Commerce, in four books; 1. of commerce in general; 2. 
  of maritime commerce; 3. of failures and bankruptcy; 4. of commercial 
  jurisdiction. Pardessus is one of the ablest commentators on this code. 
       5.-4th. Code d'Instructions Criminelle, in two books; 1. of judiciary 
  police, and its officers; 2. of the administration of justice. 
       6.-5th. Code Penal, in four books; 1. of punishment in criminal and 
  correctional cases, and their effects; 2. of the persons punishable, 
  excusable or responsible, for their crimes or misdemeanors; 3. of crimes, 
  misdemeanors, (delits,) and their punishment; 4. of contraventions of 
  police, and their punishment. For the history of these codes, vide Merl. 
  Rep. h.t.; Motifs, Rapports, Opinions et Discours sur les Codes; Encyclop. 
  Amer. h.t. 
       7. Henrion de Pansey, late a president of the Court of Cassation, 
  remarks in reference to these codes: "In the midst of the innovations of 
  these later times, a system of uniformity has suddenly engrossed all minds, 
  and we have had imposed upon us the same weights, the same measures, the 
  same laws, civil, criminal, rural and commercial. These new codes, like 
  everything which comes from the hand of man, have imperfections and 
  obscurities. The administration of them is committed to nearly thirty 
  sovereign courts and a multitude of petty tribunals, composed of only three 
  judges, and yet are invested with the right of determining in the last 
  resort, under many circumstances. Each tribunal, the natural interpreter of 
  these laws, applies them according to its own view, and the new codes were 
  scarcely in operation before this beautiful system of uniformity became 
  nothing more than a vain theory. Authorite Judiciaire, c. 31, s. 10.