n. 1. [techspeak] Executable code, esp. a 'pure code'
portion shared between multiple instances of a program running in a
multitasking OS (compare English).
2. Textual material in the mainstream sense; data in ordinary ASCII or EBCDIC
representation (see flat-ASCII).
"Those are text files; you can review them using the editor."
These two contradictory senses confuse hackers, too.
