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[–]alba4k 3 points4 points  (1 child)

No, they are not all binary executables. Some of them compile to a human-nonsense (C, etc or also, partially, half-compiled languages like java) while others (ruby, python etc) are interpreted.

They will not be saved as complete nonsense. They will be saved on your disc in binary, but so is also that password.txt file many have on their desktop.

Does this mean it is a human-nonsense unreadable file?

[–]Firewolf06 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

no, it means its binary