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The analogy that's most meaningful to ordinary people is with recipes. If you think about it, the thing that you have in ordinary life that's most like program is a recipe, it's instructions for doing something. The differences come because a recipe is followed by a person, not by a machine automatically. It's true there's no difference between source code and object code for a recipe, but it's still the closest thing. And no-one is allowed to own a recipe.