Understanding pike expressions

"Martin Nilsson (Coppermist) @ Pike (-) importm?te f?r mailinglistan" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.pike.user
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>I wanted to know the difference between
>(program)"client_base.pike" and
>(program)compile_file("../server/client_base.pike")

Beside debug information about the creation of the program

(program)"something.pike";

is the same as

compile_file("something.pike");
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