From the course: CISSP Cert Prep (2021): 8 Software Development Security

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Programming languages

Programming languages

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Programming languages

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- [Instructor] Software developers create software using a wide variety of languages. They might write software in Python, Ruby, Java, C++, or one of many other programming languages. When they write their code, the software is in a form that's usually somewhat readable by humans. For example, here's some code that I wrote in the R programming language. You can read through it and kind of get a sense of what it's doing. When a developer writes a program, the code they create is known as source code. It's written in a language like R, C, or Python, and it comes in the form of a text file. To execute the code, the computer must translate that source code into machine language instructions. This may happen in two different ways. Some languages, including R, Python, and Ruby, are known as interpreted languages. They use an interpreter, which reads directly from the source code while the program is run, and converts…

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