Computer gibberish
 

I know this is a pretty easy question but why can't computer code be in english, or any other language for that matter, instead of looking a bit like this: @wo7!34^$70ge£:?

if you mean the stuff you find in things like .dat files then...
if you're storing data, you don't want to take up space with "the cat sat on the mat" when you can say "#8@"...and the less space something takes up, the more other things you can get...

cuz the computer cant undrstand plain english. it just displays it on a screen. i guess those things stand for symbols in binary code. it harrd to understand.

I don't know but it sounds like Joe the intern and Gluk shmuck know!!! :eek: wow they must be clever!!!!

You're right, we must be clever...

Each software is programmed in a different language, like many programs and games use C++ as a basis.

Although all programs are programmed in these languages and are made up of code that you cannot read as it is compiled, many use different formats for the files they read.

Like if you tried to open a music file in a text editor, there is no way music can be heard by Notepad, so instead the computer reads what it interprets the characters as. Often these characters would not be recognizable, so you will see a lot of squares or dos-based characters.

Also as Gluk Schmuck said, these file formats take up less space than a standard text file would for example.

Binary code is actually made up of 1s and 0s, so you would see something like 00011001. There is a programming language called Assembly Language and you can only write the code in 1s and 0s. We had to do it when I studied computers, and that is one hard language to use!!!

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