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Why won processors recognize anything but programming languages?

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Why won processors recognize anything but programming languages?

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Actually, processors don’t recognize programming languages at all. Any program code has to be converted (compiled is the technical term) to the instruction set of the processor. To the computer, this instruction set is just patterns of 1’s and 0’s that tell it to do execute different operations. For a computer to execute something other than a programming language (I assume you mean a natural language, like English) someone would have to come up with a way to convert English to the processor’s instruction set. This is a huge thorny problem and people have worked on it for years.

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