GLOSSARY

Language A systematic means of communicating ideas or feelings by the use of conventionalized signs, sounds, gestures or marks having understood meanings; the means by which animals communicate; a formal system of signs and symbols (as FORTRAN or a calculus in logic) including rules for the formation and transformation of admissible expressions.

Internalize (UK internalize) To accept or absorb an idea, attitude, belief, etc. so that it becomes part of your character.

Code An algorithm expressed in some programming language.

Compiler A language translator which converts an HLL program to the native machine language of a particular computing machine.

Source The input program to a translator.

Machine It is a device to do some job. It can ...

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