https://codeinstances.com/tags/the-name/ Recent content in The Name on CodeInstances.com Hugo en-us Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://codeinstances.com/why-the-project-is-called-codeinstances/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://codeinstances.com/why-the-project-is-called-codeinstances/ <p>The name is the idea, in two words. Code is the program you write. An instance is one run of it.</p> <p>Programmers already use &ldquo;instance&rdquo; this way. An object is an instance of its class. A server is an instance of an image. A running process is an instance of a program. In each case there&rsquo;s one blueprint and many concrete things made from it, each with a life of its own. A run of your code fits right in. It&rsquo;s made from the code, but it also has things the code doesn&rsquo;t: the answers it got from the network that day, the time on the clock, the random numbers it drew.</p>