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Source code, machine code, and why translation matters

Source code, machine code, and why translation matters

Flow diagram showing high-level source code going through a compiler to executable machine code or through an interpreter instruction by instruction to the CPU A programming language lets humans write instructions as source code. The CPU cannot directly run most source code because it only executes machine code, which is binary instructions made of 000s and 111s.

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