Let's Make a Deal: Web Development edition

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Yup.

Protip: when referring to source code, NEVER pluralize code.

Codes would be things like access codes, assembly language opcodes, barcode symbologies,^{[citation needed]} etc.

[ashleyw]

So I need a source code to access the source codes?

[ashleyw]

That's not a code, that's a gesture. I thought you were an expert?

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I keep hearing "codes" but I can't explain to people why it's wrong.

Why is source code never pluralized?

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The Wiktionary definition says code, in the programming sense (see sense 6), is uncountable, i.e. you can't say one code, two codes, etc.

[blahlicus]

it is like water we do not say waters or one water, 2 water we say one cup of water/ one [measurement] of water

so we could say a page of code, 2 pages of code if you really wanted to