source code
    n 1: program instructions written as an ASCII text file; must be
         translated by a compiler or interpreter or assembler into
         the object code for a particular computer before execution

	

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source
source language

    (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.

   (1995-01-05)