ITPEC IP April 2020 Question 6
ITPEC IP April 2020 — Question 6 of 100
Programs written in high-level languages such as Fortran or C are translated into machine language before the CPU executes them. A compiler commonly performs this conversion into processor instructions.
Answer (a)
Why not others:
- machine language is the lowest-level processor language, not a high-level language
- its instructions are represented as binary bit patterns, even if tools display them in hexadecimal
- most application software is written in higher-level languages for productivity and maintainability
Key rule: The processor directly executes machine instructions; higher-level source code must be translated or interpreted into executable operations.
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