Executable
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An executable is a computer program written by a programmer and compiled by a compiler (See programming}. When it is run, it 'executes' (or runs) the actions it was programmed to.
An example of a compiler is the GNU C Compiler, or GCC for short. It reads in program code from the computer programming language, C, and converts it in to machine code (so computers can understand it).
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