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Interpreted languages

Interpreted languages

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Interpreted languages

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- In other episodes, we talk about stuff like processes and services and applications and really just programs. What we're talking about is stuff that is running on your computer, doing whatever we want them to do. Without programs, our computers are nothing. We have to have programs that are doing stuff. But I often wonder, do people really know what a program is? So I've got a bunch of programs sitting on my screen right here. Let's take a look. What you're looking at is a bunch of files that have the extension EXE. These are executable files. They are preset lists of commands that are designed to talk to Windows and to your CPU. So where do these EXE files come from? Well, they come from programmers. There are people who know how to write these types of code so that they can get work done. The problem we have here is that these EXE files are what we call compiled code. What will happen is somebody will write some…

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