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source code

Computing the original form of a computer program before it is converted into a machine-readable code

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source code

[′sȯrs ‚kōd]

(computer science)

The statements in which a computer program is initially written before translation into machine language.

source code

(language, programming)

(Or "source", or rarely "source language") The form in which a computer program is written by the programmer. Source code is written in some formal programming language which can be compiled automatically into object code or machine code or executed by an interpreter.

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The driving concept behind open source software is that the source code should be freely available for all to use, and if someone uses it to create new source code and a new application, that new source code should be freely available for others to use as well.

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This is the question being raised by poll watchdogs over the elections tomorrow despite the turnover of the highly disputed source code on Thursday, which was late by almost three months and therefore violating a provision of the Automated Election System (AES) Law.

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VMware warned on Sunday that more of its source code for its ESX hypervisor technology could become public after another batch of code was released by a hacker.

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