Neither is text until you combine enough of it together, code is rather expressive, when I work on codebases I can typically tell who wrote what due to their styles and whatnot. Sometimes that makes me dread working on that part as some of those people had ideas and didn't finish them. But still, it is rather expressive. Like get two people to do the same task that lets say takes 1k lines to do, you're going to get two very different programs, where the different programmers chose to do things as different levels of abstraction, where they decided what should and shouldn't be functions, and how the programs literally read, as most programs can be read as english if you learn to ignore the syntax. And neither is necessarily better or worse than another, they're just different like is it better to use a hash map instead of an array when there's 1000 elements? Maybe, maybe not. What about all of the different data structures, or anything really. It is expressive, and a creative task, if but an atypical one.