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List of ingredients does not a recipe make.

It's like saying "Linux uses C" and now you instantly can copy Linux =)



> List of ingredients does not a recipe make.

It does however play a hugely important role in a recipe, in a way than the choice of language doesn't play in a program (especially considering turing completeness). So the analogy is broken.

Besides nobody made the point that list of ingredients makes a recipe.

Just that it's important to know the list of ingredients for a food you're gonna eat, and that it's even illegal to not disclose them (either to the public or a regulatory body) if you sell food.


> List of ingredients does not a recipe make.

Apologies if the parent comment was edited after you wrote yours but a "process and ingredients" does a recipe make.




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