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We have said that the underlying principle of the stored-program computer is that a sequence of instructions contained in the memory in binary form is executed one by one. Programs written into the machine as groups of binary digits, such as the examples in Chapter 1, are called machine-code programs. Programs are very rarely written in this way since it is a tedious process leading to mistakes and making changes difficult. Fortunately, higher-level programming methods are available. They use high-level languages and programs written in one of these have to be compiled (translated) into machine code before they can be run. We shall consider them later.
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Lewin, D., Noaks, D. (1992). Data representation and computer arithmetic. In: Theory and Design of Digital Computer Systems. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1576-6_2
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