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'''Source code''' is the term used for the human-readable form of a [[program]] in a [[programming language]], before it is processed by an [[assembly language|assembler]] or [[compiler]] to produce the program in [[object code]] ('binary') form, or by an [[interpreter]] which runs the program directly.
 
'''Source code''' is the term used for the human-readable form of a [[program]] in a [[programming language]], before it is processed by an [[assembly language|assembler]] or [[compiler]] to produce the program in [[object code]] ('binary') form, or by an [[interpreter]] which runs the program directly.
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Source code is the term used for the human-readable form of a program in a programming language, before it is processed by an assembler or compiler to produce the program in object code ('binary') form, or by an interpreter which runs the program directly.