What's the difference between data and code?

Question

To take an example, consider a set of discounts available to a supermarket shopper.

We could define these rules as data in some standard fashion (lists of qualifyin

Answer 1

Data is information. It's not about where you decide to put it, be it a db, config file, config through code or inside the classes.

The same happens for behaviors / code. It's not about where you decide to put it or how you choose to represent it.