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programming language
A set of rules for giving instructions to a computer. In high-level languages, which use words similar to those in English and are therefore easier to learn, one statement may represent several machine instructions, and must be converted into machine code by a compiler. Low-level languages are more similar to machine code, and each statement represents one machine instruction.
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