machine languages
CPU's native tongue
Machine languages are the lowest-level programming languages—sequences of binary code that a computer's processor can execute directly.
Unlike human-readable code, machine language consists of ones and zeros representing specific operations.
Each processor architecture has its own machine language, making code written for one incompatible with another.
Programmers rarely write in machine language today, instead using higher-level languages that are compiled or interpreted into it.
- binaryConsisting of two parts
- ones and zerosBinary digits
- codeSymbolic communication system
- bitSmall amount or portion
- compilerSource-to-machine-code translator
mnemonic · assembly · execute · hexadecimal · octal · microcode · ARM · instruction · x86 · load · nibble · processors · RISC · bare metal · programming · interpreters · Ada Lovelace · punch cards
machine languagesPython
Large nonvenomous squeezer
Java · JavaScript · Ruby · BASIC · COBOL
machine languagesnatural language
Human communication, not programming
natural languages · pseudocode · English · spoken language · plain English
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