While some, like the FSF, argue that an intermediate file 'is not real source code and does not count as source code', others find it convenient to refer to each intermediate file as the source code for the next steps. Often there are several steps of program translation or minification between the original source code typed by a human and an executable program. It is therefore so construed as to include machine code, very high level languages and executable graphical representations of systems. An example from an article presented on the annual IEEE conference and on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation: įor the purpose of clarity 'source code' is taken to mean any fully executable description of a software system. The notion of source code may also be taken more broadly, to include machine code and notations in graphical languages, neither of which are textual in nature. Source code (also referred to as source or code) is the version of software as it is originally written (i.e., typed into a computer) by a human in plain text (i.e., human readable alphanumeric characters). The Linux Information Project defines source code as: This first known ' Hello world' snippet from the seminal book The C Programming Language originates from Brian Kernighan in the Bell Laboratories in 1974.

The resulting program prints 'hello, world' on the computer screen. Simple C-language source code example, a procedural programming language.

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