machine code definition

machine code

Programming code written in a machine language that can be executed directly by a machine (computer) without any conversion or translation. Almost all commercial (shrinkwrapped) software is sold in machine code. If any defect (bug) is discovered by a user, he or she cannot make any corrections because that would necessitate the software to software to be in the human-readable programming language code (source code).

machine code is in the Information Science & Technology subject.

machine code appears in the definitions of the following terms: code, machine instruction, source code, object code and programming language

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