A programming language that is a machine independent and not tied to a specific CPU family. The source code of such a language is converted into machine language with software called a "compiler." See ...

In the world of software engineering, code can take multiple forms from the time it's written by a programmer to the moment it is executed by a computer. What begins as high-level source code, written ...

The native language of the computer. In order for a program to run, it must be presented to the computer as binary-coded machine instructions that are specific to that CPU family. Although programmers ...