Reply to: Codes that changed the world

[expat]

Clearly codes is the plural of code, but in this context code is an abstract noun not having a plural.

[alluvial]

6502 assembler, to be precise - I believe it was from something for the Apple II

From IMDB:

Shots through the Terminator's vision shows a dump of the ROM assembler code for the Apple II operating system. If you own an Apple II, enter at the basic prompt: ] call -151 * p This will give you the terminator view. Other code visible is written in COBOL.

Anyone stillgot one of them?

[NickFitz]

It's years since I watched it, but all I can remember of the code shown is that it was written in assembler.

6502 assembler, to be precise - I believe it was from something for the Apple II

[NickFitz]

I always make a point of using "datum" when there's only one of them. That seems to annoy some people

[Euler]

Wait until the first person says datas

Data is another one whose usage has changed.
Interestingly people are more correct nowadays.
I recall people saying "this data is ...", nowadays almost everyone uses the correct "these data are ....".
Maybe negating my point about the dumbing down of society ....

[alluvial]

BBC Radio 4 - Radio 4 in Four, "The Terminator is an accounting programme run amok"

Sorry, that bloke lost all credilbility with me when he said that COBOL stands for Combined Business Oriented Language and then assumes it must be an accounting programme just because it's COBOL.

[darmstadt]

It's all part of the dumbing down of society.

Wait until the first person says datas

[Euler]

I suggest you write & complain to the BBC.

In as much as the programme title refers to different coding languages, you may or may not be onto a winner.

It's all part of the dumbing down of society.

[Euler]

"Codes" has always been the plural of "code". Otherwise people would say things like "The enemy used several different code, but they were all broken", or "To enter the vault you must input two different entry code on separate keypads", or "The judicial system was based on elements of several different penal code of other countries"; and they don't say those things, because the correct word in all those cases is "codes".

Not when it relates to computer code.
In the 80s, 90s and 00s you'd say "do you want to check my code?" for example.
You'll find it's non-techies and newbies who might say, nowadays, "Check my codes".

http://english.stackexchange.com/que...amming-context

Edited: In the context of the Op's post, "code" would be correct not "codes"

[EternalOptimist]

"Codes" has always been the plural of "code". Otherwise people would say things like "The enemy used several different code, but they were all broken", or "To enter the vault you must input two different entry code on separate keypads", or "The judicial system was based on elements of several different penal code of other countries"; and they don't say those things, because the correct word in all those cases is "codes".

whs
last year I hab a code, this year I hab a code
that's two codes. not two code

atishoo.

[NickFitz]

At what point did the plural for code become codes rather than code?
I can't abide that usage.

"Codes" has always been the plural of "code". Otherwise people would say things like "The enemy used several different code, but they were all broken", or "To enter the vault you must input two different entry code on separate keypads", or "The judicial system was based on elements of several different penal code of other countries"; and they don't say those things, because the correct word in all those cases is "codes".

[EternalOptimist]

If it's machine code it plainly needs some oil.

Try WD40 or 3 in 1.

I god WMD40

[EternalOptimist]

I'b sorry, I hab a code

[Euler]

At what point did the plural for code become codes rather than code?
I can't abide that usage.

[cojak]

That's the one!