You Think Thats Code Youre Writing

(Spawned from TheMatrix - "You think that's air you're breathing?")

Recommended usage ...

To someone writing overly detailed specifications, "you think that's code you're writing?" Meaning: stop writing text and help me write that in code.
To someone carelessly writing code, "you think that's code you're writing?" Meaning: give some thought to those who will have to read this, our most definitive document.
To someone writing code, "you think that's code you're writing?" Meaning: You are controlling a nuclear reactor, entertaining a five-year old, flying a 500-seater aircraft, keeping people in gaol (jail) , dispensing drugs, talking to a human being.
To a grammarian who insists on correct semi-colon usage. Meaning: The pedantry is only valuable to a point.
Among friends.
To someone marking up an HTML document but thinks it's programming, "you think that's code you're writing?" (rather than markup). Meaning: Those are hints, not instructions, and the browser is entitled to render the content however it damn well likes, so quit trying to force it.
If preceded with: Do you think my coding faster, or better... has anything to do with my IDEs in this place?
To a UML addict ...

Sounds like a ZenSlap.

It is kinda like BoldlyGoWhereSomeoneHasGoneBefore. Not the same meaning of course, but a quotation reworked to indicate something else. -- AndreSlabber.

What strikes me as the amusing part: Yes, code is code, even if the hardware it's running on is simulated by TheMatrix. -- DanielKnapp