[codesnik]

but actual code preceded the hardware!

[anonzzzies]

indeed, people like Dijkstra wrote quire a bit of code on paper before the hardware to run that code existed.

[Gravityloss]

Well, there existed ware, the code ran on wetware

[rollcat]

This. Ada Lovelace wrote programs for Babbage's analytical engine long before anyone succeeded at constructing one.