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Machine language is voltages and usually hard-wired.
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While that may be literally true, that is not how the term is employed. Machine language is the numerical representation of the instructions (opcodes and operands) that direct the operation of the cpu. They are read from memory as binary values. The various parts of the hardware cpu gate them here and there as appropriate, in order that the operations may be properly completed by the hardware. The results are directed appropriately. My God, I can believe that people don't know these things, that's not a biggie. What I have trouble believing is that people that DON'T know these things spout them in front of a bunch of gullible novices as if they are the gospel and to be believed without reservation. I could just puke in my cuffs.
I am, incidentally, an EE. My experience covers hardware design (analog and digital) as well as software design as well as managerial experience ranging up to VP, Engineering for other companies and owner of my own company. That latter means nothing, of course, in the absence of success, but it was successful. While I am an old fogey, I am not stupid. Immature blathering is one thing but guru-like pronunciamentos by unhatched fools is quite another.