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Line 1: {{Unreferenced\|date=March 2007}} '''Source compatibility''' means that a program can run on [[central processing unit\|computer]]s (or operating systems), ~~independly~~independently of [[binary compatibility]] and that the [[source code]] is needed for [[portability]]. The source code must be [[compiler\|compiled]] before running, unless the computers can work as [[Interpreter (computing)\|interpreters]] (this is the case of a few [[bytecode]] processors). Confusingly, sometimes the term is used for [[assembly language]] compatibility, where the source is already [[human-readable]] [[machine code]] but must be converted to executable code by an [[Assembly language#Assembler\|assembler]]. This is different from [[binary code compatibility]], where no recompilation is needed.

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