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machine and language
Of the two, Porter is justly the better known, for he went far beyond the vital finding of fiction for films to take the first step toward fashioning a language of film, toward making the motion picture the intricate, efficient time machine that it has remained since, even in the most inept hands.
: Precise instructions ( in language understood by " the computer ") for a fast, efficient, " good " process that specifies the " moves " of " the computer " ( machine or human, equipped with the necessary internally contained information and capabilities ) to find, decode, and then process arbitrary input integers / symbols m and n, symbols + and =
An assembly language is a low-level programming language for a computer, microcontroller, or other programmable device, in which each statement corresponds to a single machine code instruction.
Assembly language is converted into executable machine code by a utility program referred to as an assembler ; the conversion process is referred to as assembly, or assembling the code.
Assembly language uses a mnemonic to represent each low-level machine operation or opcode.
* Natural language understanding ( and subproblems such as text mining, machine translation, and word sense disambiguation )
The language and its variants became widespread on microcomputers in the late 1970s and 1980s, when it was typically a standard feature, and often part of the firmware of the machine.
The brainfuck language uses a simple machine model consisting of the program and instruction pointer, as well as an array of at least 30, 000 byte cells initialized to zero ; a movable data pointer ( initialized to point to the leftmost byte of the array ); and two streams of bytes for input and output ( most often connected to a keyboard and a monitor respectively, and using the ASCII character encoding ).
Starting in 1971 Ritchie made changes to the language while converting its compiler to produce machine code, most notably adding data typing for variables.
* Burroughs produced the B1700 or " small systems " computers that were designed to be microprogrammed, with each process potentially getting its own virtual machine designed to be the best match to the programming language chosen for the program being run.
At the lowest level, executable code consists of machine language instructions specific to an individual processor.
A machine language consists of groups of binary values signifying processor instructions that change the state of the computer from its preceding state.
It is usually written in high-level programming languages that are easier and more efficient for humans to use ( closer to natural language ) than machine language.
High-level languages are compiled or interpreted into machine language object code.
Software may also be written in an assembly language, essentially, a mnemonic representation of a machine language using a natural language alphabet.
The name " compiler " is primarily used for programs that translate source code from a high-level programming language to a lower level language ( e. g., assembly language or machine code ).
Its design provides constructs that map efficiently to typical machine instructions, and therefore it found lasting use in applications that had formerly been coded in assembly language, most notably system software like the Unix computer operating system.
It was designed to be compiled using a relatively straightforward compiler, to provide low-level access to memory, to provide language constructs that map efficiently to machine instructions, and to require minimal run-time support.
* Cardinal, a Ruby programming language implementation using for the Parrot virtual machine

machine and debugger
* a small interactive bootstrap program or machine code debugger
The default ITS top-level command interpreter was the PDP-10 machine language debugger ( DDT ).
Some full-featured machine code monitors provide detailed control (" single-stepping ") of the execution of machine language programs ( much like a debugger ), and include absolute-address code assembly and disassembly capabilities.
If a debugger is installed on the machine, it is activated when the interrupt request is processed, allowing the user to view and usually modify the computer's internal memory.
The virtual machine was fully fault-tolerant, using structured exception handling internally, and provided a debugger interface.

machine and produced
This machine was built using materials and engineering tolerances that would have been available to Babbage, quelling the suggestion that Babbage's designs could not have been produced using the manufacturing technology of his time.
The earliest PDP-7 implementations compiled to threaded code, and then Ritchie wrote a compiler using TMG which produced machine code.
Some software providers also produced compilers for BASIC, and other languages, to produce binary ( or " machine ") code which would run many times faster and make better use of the small system RAM.
The systems are sufficiently similar that a significant fraction of the compiled software produced for one machine will run on the other.
In 1663 the German physicist Otto von Guericke created the first electric generator, which produced static electricity by applying friction in the machine.
It has been implemented efficiently on modern RISC processors, and processors that use Forth as machine language have been produced.
Because he was prohibited by contract from racing for four years, the Scuderia briefly became Auto Avio Costruzioni Ferrari, which ostensibly produced machine tools and aircraft accessories.
Professor Cotton had produced a rudimentary friction-based machine for evaluating potential rowers by exhausting them, without any pretence to accurately measure power output.
The friction brake was adjusted according to a rower's weight to give an accurate appraisal of boat-moving ability ( drag on a boat is proportional to weight ). Inferior copies of Harrison's machine were produced in several countries utilising a smaller flywheel and leather straps-unfortunately the leather straps were sensitive to humidity, and the relatively large braking area made results far less accurate than Harrison's machine.
In World War II, the Polish resistance produced a machine pistol called the Bechowiec-1.
Some of the earliest-used machine learning algorithms, such as decision trees, produced systems of hard if-then rules similar to existing hand-written rules.
" Talking machine " had earlier been used to refer to complicated devices which produced a crude imitation of speech by simulating the workings of the vocal cords, tongue and lips, a potential source of confusion both then and now.
* 1974 – Roland RE-201: The renowned space echo machine, one of the most popular tape delay-based echo machines ever produced.
Thus in 1907, manufacturer Herbert Mills from Chicago produced a slot machine called the Operator Bell.
It produced a polyalphabetic substitution cipher, but unlike the Enigma machines, it was not a rotor machine, being built around electrical stepping switches.
Ultrasonic foils under the moving wire in a paper machine will use the shock waves from the imploding bubbles to distribute the cellulose fibres more uniform in the produced paper web, which will make a stronger paper with more even surfaces.
Dickson left Edison's company and formed his own company that produced the mutoscope, a form of hand cranked peep show movie machine.
The displacement of mercury which took place when the cell was short-circuited, only took place very slowly when an ebonite plate, covered with a sheet of copper of high resistance, was inserted between one of the poles of the cell, and the corresponding electrode of the electrometer ; but when sparks were produced by a machine, the mercury was rapidly thrown into the capillary tube owing to the sudden diminution in the resistance of the plate.
It is a very simple machine that is still produced today for use in small hydro sites.
All common water machines until the late 19th century ( including water wheels ) were basically reaction machines ; water pressure head acted on the machine and produced work.
Although the 48K Spectrum's audio hardware was not as capable as chips in other popular 8-bit home computers of the era, computer musicians David Whittaker and Tim Follin produced notable multi-channel music for the machine.
In 1885 Singer produced its first " vibrating shuttle " sewing machine, an improvement over contemporary oscillating shuttle designs.
In 1837, Charles Wheatstone produced a " speaking machine " based on von Kempelen's design, and in 1857, M. Faber built the " Euphonia ".

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