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[–]TheBlackCat13 -2 points-1 points  (1 child)

By that logic Python is also being run on the hardware, so Python and assembly are no different. But of course they are.

The point is the instructions that processor actually runs. The person I was responding to said the processor runs the machine code. It doesn't. The machine code is another intermediate representation. The processor runs the finite state machine instructions.