u/cabritarin r/compsci • Recommends
Non CS major here, looking to understand programming language's relation to binary.
**TL;DR**
* How does a computer turn higher level programming languages to machine code, then into something usable (binary maybe)? I'm probably way off here.
**What I would like to get out of this thread:**
* I understand that this might be a VERY complicated topic and I don't expect to be spoon fed or ELI5'ed.
* I'm willing to do the reading so even some keywords so I could search would be helpful.
* I would love to be able to explain this topic to someone with your help.
**Background:**
* I was watching a YT video about programming languages and learned that there are higher languages that allo…