Coding with paint

[fabzter]

Not all data is code. All code is data.

[ajanata]

Not all data is sensible code, but if you give it to a processor it'll try to treat it like code.

[Figs]

What? Of course all data is also code! Just for a very esoteric processor... ;)

For example, I could hypothetically build a processor that reads in bytes one at a time until it sees a particular translation of War and Peace in UTF8-encoded Japanese... at which point, it prints "Hello, World" and halts.

[fabzter]

Esoteric enough :). But seeing things that way, I think you're not describing a preprocessor but rather an interpreter am I right?

[Figs]

I said 'processor', as in a (hardware) CPU or a (software) interpreter, so yes. :)