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

Relationship between code and data is as follows:

code after compiled to a program processes the data while execution

program can extract data, transform data, load data, generate data ...

Also program can extract code, transform code, load code, generate code tooooooo...

Hence code without compiled or interperator is useless, data is always worth..., but code after compiled can do all the above activities....

For eg)

Sourcecontrolsystem process Sourcecodes

here source code itself is a code

Backupscripts process files

here files is a data and so on...