Machine language
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Machine language is the set of valid statements a hardware device can be programmed with.
In modern computing it's rare for a programmer to directly give instructions to a device at its basic level. Higher level languages are compiled into a machine-specific language. Therefore, the phrase "machine language" is typically applied to the format a program has in computer memory at execution time, that is, the list of values in memory that the CPU is reading/executing.
The set of those valid statements that forms a machine language, when translated to text form, becomes the basis for the assembly language of the device.
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