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The Discontinuous Code Transformation Problem

Coding is a process of Discontinuous Transformation.

Orthogonal Categories

The following is the classified list of all 60 items from The Discontinuous Code Transformation Problem (with the original item numbers preserved) grouped into 5 orthogonal, spanning categories. (Hyperonomy Digital Lab)

Category 1 — Abstract ⇄ Formal Code (Intent and conceptual to executable code)

These transformations involve moving between ideas, designs, algorithms, pseudocode, prompts and formal code.

1. ideas → source code (Hyperonomy Digital Lab)
2. ideas → pseudocode (Hyperonomy Digital Lab)
3. ideas → Blocks (Hyperonomy Digital Lab)
4. ideas → prompts (Hyperonomy Digital Lab)
5. pseudocode → source code (Hyperonomy Digital Lab)
6. algorithms → source code (Hyperonomy Digital Lab)
7. source code → algorithms (Hyperonomy Digital Lab)
21. prompts → generated code (Hyperonomy Digital Lab)
53. prompts → image and video code (Hyperonomy Digital Lab)
54. prompts → virtual people code (Hyperonomy Digital Lab)

Category 2 — Code Representation & Structure (Different internal/code structures without altering fundamental semantics)

11. source code → optimized code (Hyperonomy Digital Lab)
12. source code → executable code (Hyperonomy Digital Lab)
13. source code → intermediate code (Hyperonomy Digital Lab)
14. source code → object code (Hyperonomy Digital Lab)
15. source code → virtual machine byte code (Hyperonomy Digital Lab)
16. source code → an AST (Hyperonomy Digital Lab)
17. source code → nocode (Hyperonomy Digital Lab)
25. source code → interpreted code (Hyperonomy Digital Lab)
26. script code → executed code (Hyperonomy Digital Lab)

Category 3 — Code Quality & Behavioral Transformation (Improvements or regressions in code behavior, performance, structure)

9. old source code → new source code (Hyperonomy Digital Lab)
10. old source code → new and changed source code (Hyperonomy Digital Lab)
22. source code → buggier code (Hyperonomy Digital Lab)
23. source code → cleaner code (Hyperonomy Digital Lab)
24. slow code → fast code (Hyperonomy Digital Lab)

Category 4 — Code Data, Formats & External Artefacts

These involve mapping code to data formats, document formats, hardware descriptions, or structured data.

8. mathematical and arithmetic formula code → source code (Hyperonomy Digital Lab)
28. SQL code → datacode (CSV/XML/JSON) (Hyperonomy Digital Lab)
29. GraphQL/Cypher → datacode (XML/JSON) (Hyperonomy Digital Lab)
30. .NET objects serialized → datacode (XML/JSON) (Hyperonomy Digital Lab)
31. REST/HTTP codes → datacode (XML/JSON) (Hyperonomy Digital Lab)
32. source code → Microsoft Office document code (Hyperonomy Digital Lab)
37. image code → graphics code (Hyperonomy Digital Lab)
38. animation code → graphics code (Hyperonomy Digital Lab)
39. text code → audio speech code (Hyperonomy Digital Lab)
43. UBL code → value chain document code (Hyperonomy Digital Lab)
44. UBL → value chain payment instructions (Hyperonomy Digital Lab)
45. UBL → value chain shipping & delivery instructions (Hyperonomy Digital Lab)
55. source code → streaming code (Hyperonomy Digital Lab)
48. DIDs → verifiable identity code (DID Docs) (Hyperonomy Digital Lab)
49. Verifiable Credential code → secure, trusted document code (Hyperonomy Digital Lab)

Category 5 — Execution Context, Platforms & Environment

Transformations where code moves across platforms, repositories or execution environments.

19. local code → GitHub code (Hyperonomy Digital Lab)
20. GitHub code → local code (Hyperonomy Digital Lab)
27. shell code (cmdlets) → API codes (Hyperonomy Digital Lab)
33. source code → firmware (Hyperonomy Digital Lab)
34. source code → microcode (Hyperonomy Digital Lab)
35. source code → silicon (Hyperonomy Digital Lab)
36. source code → simulated code (Hyperonomy Digital Lab)
41. FTP code → file system code (Hyperonomy Digital Lab)
42. HTML → multi-media graphics code (Hyperonomy Digital Lab)
46. blockchain code → cryptocurrency codes (Hyperonomy Digital Lab)
47. blockchain code → Verifiable Data Registry codes (Hyperonomy Digital Lab)
50. Internet standards → interoperable protocol code (Hyperonomy Digital Lab)
51. source code → filesystem code (disk/storage) (Hyperonomy Digital Lab)
52. Office documents → filesystem code (Hyperonomy Digital Lab)

Category 6 — Human-Cognitive & Sensory Interfaces with Code

These map between human behaviours/perceptions, neural codes, gesture codes, and symbolic codes.

40. SMTP code → communications neural code (Hyperonomy Digital Lab)
56. human gestures → sign language code (Hyperonomy Digital Lab)
57. sign language code → neural code (Hyperonomy Digital Lab)
58. source code → robot gestures (Hyperonomy Digital Lab)
59. five senses neural code (Hyperonomy Digital Lab)
60. neural code → gestures (muscle code) (Hyperonomy Digital Lab)

Recap of Categories with Item Count

CategoryDescriptionRangeItems1. Abstract ⇄ Formal CodeFrom intent/design/ideas → formal code and back1–7, 21, 53–5410 items2. Code Representation & StructureFormal structure transformations11–17, 25–269 items3. Quality/BehaviorPerformance/restructuring changes9–10, 22–245 items4. Code Data & FormatsCode as data & alternative formats8, 28–31, 32,37–39, 43–45, 48–49, 5514 items5. Execution & EnvironmentContext/platform conversions19–20, 27, 33–36, 41–42, 46–47, 50–5214 items6. Human-Cognitive InterfacesHuman signals machine code40, 56–606 items

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