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The Complete Guide to Bash Programming

Source Code

Explore the concept of source code as the human-readable text of programs written in programming languages. Understand how compilers convert entire programs into machine code saved on disk, while interpreters execute code immediately in memory. This lesson helps you grasp how programs move from text to actionable instructions.

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Solving the human-readability issue

Machine code is a low-level representation of a program. This format of instructions and data is convenient for the processor. However, it’s hard for a human to write a program in machine code. It became even more complicated as computers’ performance increased, which allowed greater program ...