BTW, my 'computing' and basic code-writing experience goes way back--first in
college, in a single introductory course, writing 'batch process' programs for
an IBM mainframe using punch cards(!) and Fortran IV; then with a Commodore VIC
20, then a Commodore 64, probably using BASIC.

Yet in ALL that time, I don't think I ever heard or knew of the concept of
'source code.' Or even heard the phrase! (If I did, it was just one more
*arcane* computing term that made no sense at the time, as that 'introductory'
college course was WAY over the heads of most of the students, almost like a
philosophy course taught in a foreign language. Yet the programming itself was
easy.)

Actually, it has only been while using POV-Ray (and visiting the newsgroups)
that I've been made aware of what source code even *is*.

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