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* One cutscene in ''MetalGearSolid: TheTwinSnakes'' shows a computer screen with complicated code showing up on it; [[http://multimedia.cx/eggs/mgs-vp3-easter-egg/ it's a hexdump of a gzip file]].

* In one ''GundamWing'' episode, a screen displays part of the Photoshop 6 manual as a purported readout from a medical scanner.

* Some text editors for programmers provide a way to easily scroll from the use of a particular method or variable to the point in the program where it was defined. When trying to understand exactly what a large method does, a programmer may chase down plenty of such hyperlinks.

* The ''{{Clear and Present Danger}}'' movie has a moment where a CIA hacker writes a "special program" to crack into Ritter's encrypted files. Unfortunately, it's a fake language.

* ''{{Dollhouse}}'' uses the HTML source from the Web site for Wolfram Research in a hacking scene during the episode "Briar Rose". [[http://www.wolfram.com/company/background.html Wolfram Research]] is a real company that makes Mathematica software, but it shares a name with an evil corporation on Whedon's series ''Angel'', making it a particularly nerdy hidden reference.

* In the ''SuzumiyaHaruhi'' episode "The Day of Saggitarius", Nagato with the help of a macro program reconfigures the entire steering method of a video game to the point where the graphics don't exist anymore - she's just churning out lines of code at top speed while typing at a pace that looks like it'll break the laptop. She even uses this to directly edit the source code and hack into the game itself in order to get rid of the cheating edge the other team was using. A fan actually checked the code she was using - ''and it was valid''.

** C (or C++ written entirely in the style of C).

* [[SerialExperimentsLain Lain]] apparently does all her hackery in Lisp.

* The ''CodeLyoko'' supercomputer screens apparently display a PHP image gallery script.

* In ''{{Portal}}'', once you get backstage there are monitors that are basically scrolling code, except really they're scrolling distorted cake recipes.

* In {{Portal}}, once you get backstage there are monitors that are basically scrolling code, except really they're scrolling distorted cake recipes.

* In the process of making any very large program, the programmers will eventually have to write a program to help them compile their own program. It's a common enough problem that there are a number of popular "build automation" tools that write that stuff ''for'' you (once you configure them right). The code output by [http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/ automake] and the like can be quite long, and while you wouldn't ordinarily watch it scroll past while it's being generated, you could if you wanted to.

** Their environmental control system also seems to make heavy use of some XML dialect, as seen when [[Alpha uses it]].

* Compiling a program (i.e. translating human-readable source code into a form that the computer can run faster) often prints lots of diagnostic information derived from the source code.

* Meta-example: when [[HollywoodHacking computer network intrusion isn't portrayed Hollywood-style]], chances are there will be [[http://nmap.org/movies.html nmap output somewhere on the screen]] (though strictly speaking, this is not source code).

* Meta-example: when [[HollywoodHacking cracking isn't portrayed Hollywood-style]], chances are there will be [[http://nmap.org/movies.html nmap output somewhere on the screen]] (though strictly speaking, this is not source code).

* I remember hearing that in one ''GundamWing'' episode, a screen displays either the documentation, config or code for TWAIN scanner drivers.
** It was documentation from Photoshop 6, I believe. The scene presented it as a readout from a medical scanner.

* The T-800 in ''{{Terminator}}'' has AppleII assembly code scrolling on the RoboCam. 6502 Assembly code, generally acknowledged as [[http://www.pagetable.com/?p=64 AppleII code originally taken from Nibble Magazine]].

* ''{{Dollhouse}}'' uses the HTML source from the Web site for Wolfram research in a hacking scene during the episode "Briar Rose". Wolfram Research is a real company, but the name is also the name of an evil corporation on Whedon's series ''Angel'', making it a particularly nerdy hidden reference.

* Compiling a program (i.e. translating human-readable source code into a form that the computer can run faster) often prints lots of information (though not the source code).

* Assembly language code, which consists of primitive instructions usually written one per line, tends to be quite verbose. Reading a longer assembly listing may resemble this trope. Though these days one rarely ever needs to read (or write) assembly code.

* ''{{Dollhouse}}'' uses the HTML source from the Web site for Wolfram research in a hacking scene during the episode "Briar Rose". Wolfram is apparently a real company, but the name is also the name of an evil corporation on Whedon's series ''Angel'', making it a particularly nerdy hidden reference.

* The code seen in [[DotHack .hack//Liminality]] is from the source code of the .hack games.

---->[+ @@global _start@@+ ]
---->[+ @@ @@+ ]
---->[+ @@section .text@@+ ]
---->[+ @@ @@+ ]
---->[+ @@_start:@@+ ]
---->[+ @@ @@+ ]
------>[+ @@mov eax, 4@@+ ]
------>[+ @@mov ebx, 1@@+ ]
------>[+ @@mov ecx, content@@+ ]
------>[+ @@mov edx, content.length@@+ ]
------>[+ @@int 0x80@@+ ]
---->[+ @@ @@+ ]
---->[+ @@section .data@@+ ]
---->[+ @@ @@+ ]
---->[+ @@content:@@+ ]

---->[+ @@.length equ $ - content@@+ ]
---->[+ @@ @@+ ]
---->[+ @@section .text@@+ ]
------>[+ @@mov eax, 1@@+ ]
------>[+ @@xor ebx, ebx@@+ ]
------>[+ @@int 0x80@@+ ]

* [[SerialExperimentsLain Lain]] apparently does all her hackery in [[spoiler:LISP]].

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