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by enriquto 465 days ago
it's a fairly common usage in numeric computing. If you read, for example, the wikipedia entries for "computational fluid dynamics" you'll see that they consistently speak of "codes" when referring to programs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_fluid_dynamics

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Same for computational Chemistry, computational Physics (solid state, neutronics, astrophysics), etc.