"don’t get caught up in the idea that you’re writing or editing a novel."<p>Code <i>can</i> be prose:<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare_Programming_Language#Example_code" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare_Programming_Langua...</a><p>Literate programming also views code as a form of prose and could be considered a predecessor to programming notebooks (Jupyter notebooks and similar).<p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming</a><p>Not all code is prose, but some code can be.