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machine code

COMPUTER instructions written as a form of zero/one combinations which the computer can execute by activating off/on electrical pulses. All ‘higher level’ computer program languages like BASIC or COBOL have to be translated into machine code for use in a computer.
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"I myself speak the language of the Munchkins, which is also the language of the Emerald City.
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A large part of one of Wundt's two vast volumes on language in his "Volkerpsychologie" is concerned with gesture-language.
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So that was the way the Doctor came to know that animals had a language of their own and could talk to one another.
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Perhaps they would know this almost universal language. I knew it--as well as the German language--well enough to read it fluently, but not to speak it correctly.
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Sweet, with boundless contempt for my stupidity, would reply that it not only meant but obviously was the word Result, as no other Word containing that sound, and capable of making sense with the context, existed in any language spoken on earth.
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Confusion of language of good and evil; this sign I give unto you as the sign of the state.
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In language and literature the most general immediate result of the Conquest was to make of England a trilingual country, where Latin, French, and Anglo-Saxon were spoken separately side by side.
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