Then why do we keep code after it has been compiled to a functional executable? Why do we (those of us working on teams) have rules limiting how code is written, or even in what language? Why do we study abstraction strategies like OOP and FP? Codifying and then storing a solution is not a necessity essential to a solution, it’s a necessity satisfying an external pressure. My conjecture is that that external pressure is the authors’ need to transmit solutions across time (eg to oneself when it stops running for w/e reason) and space (eg to collaborators), so the solution can be read and understood, revised and extended, in the same way we transmit other ideas in natural language prose or other symbolic systems. If we want to treat this outside of the humanities, we need to abandon high level languages like bash and C and return to manipulating registers and memory directly.