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What are Compiled and Interpreted languages

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Compiled and Interpreted languages, When you start with programming, maybe these two words are one of the first things to learn. Usually Programming languages are developed in order to make it easy for the Programmer to write source-code in a easily understandable and readable. And this source-code written by the Programmer has to be converted to Machine Language for the Computers to understand. A programmer can directly write the source-code in Machine language too - however this will take several more time and unnecessary energy from the programmer, so thus the Programming languages. Now, The process of converting the Programmer written source-code to Machine code can be done in two ways: Using a Compiler (Compiled languages)  Using an Interpreter (Interpreted languages) So we need to get our source code converted into machine code somehow before it can run. Now luckily, this is not a big decision you have to worry about. Most languages you'll deal with will naturally ...