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• n  a programming language designed for use on a specific class of computers
• n  a set of instructions coded so that the computer can use it directly without further translation

• computer language
• computer-oriented language
• machine-oriented language
• machine code

News & Articles

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• How Your Compiler Can Compromise Application Security
  jfruh writes "Most day-to-day programmers have only a general idea of how compilers transform human-readable code into the machine language that actually powers computers. In an attempt to streamline applications, many compilers actually remove code that it perceives to be undefined or unstable — and, as a research group at MIT has found, in doing so can make applications less secure. The good ...
  Oct. 30, 2013 - Slashdot