machine language

noun

, Computers.

a coding system built into the hardware of a computer, requiring no translation before being run.

machine language

The set of instructions, encoded as strings of binary bits, interpreted directly by a computer's central processing unit. Each different type of central processing unit has its own machine language. For a given machine language, each unique combination of 1's and 0's in an instruction has a unique interpretation, including such operations as arithmetical operations, incrementing a counter, saving data to memory, testing if data has a certain value, and so on. Computer programs are rarely written directly in machine language; instead, higher-level programming languages are used.
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Only the most modern layers were built with cybersecurity as a design constraint, and almost none of the machine languages used were ever meant to be compatible.

From MIT Technology Review

These systems permit programs to be written using meaningful names (symbols) rather than actual machine language.

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Machine-language programming has not proved to be a bad chore because the system is a fixed-hardware setup.

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Problem oriented language statements may be freely intermixed with symbolic machine language instructions.

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