rage against committed object code - benclifford/text GitHub Wiki

it's not "compiled" it's come out of a "code generator"

"The code gen system had somewhat broken down after Bruce had left. None of the remaining team really understood how it worked, so it was easier just to modify the code by hand. Ina found the code confusing and difficult to reason about." -- http://mikehadlow.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/the-lava-layer-anti-pattern.html

apache licence agrees, and regards it as object code even if it "looks" like source code:

"Object" form shall mean any form resulting from mechanical transformation or translation of a Source form