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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (29 children)

No, it is wrong. Machine code is not source code.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

well assembly is technically "source code" and can be 1:1 translated to and from binary, excluding "syntactic sugar" stuff like macros and labels added on top.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But those things you're excluding are the most important parts of the source code...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

By excluded he means macro assemblers which in my mind do qualify as an actual langauge as they have more complicated syntax than instruction arg1, arg2 ...

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