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Originally Posted by sirmaru
Just as software was changed from easily stolen BASIC and COBOL code and other easily readable and changeable code to machine code, eBooks can be changed in the same way.
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You are of course aware that Computers have NEVER run BASIC or COBOL programs; instead, the textual source code was compiled into machine code.
In fact, languages such as BASIC and COBOL came a lot later in the computing business than machine code, as a means of making programmers more productive.
Nowadays very little development is done in machine-code; it's all done in high-level languages, and we rely on the compilers and their knowledge of computer architectures to efficiently create the machine code.