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n. [very common] In reference to software, source is invariably shorthand
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for source code , the preferred human-readable and human-modifiable form of
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the program. This is as opposed to object code, the derived binary
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executable form of a program. This shorthand readily takes derivative forms;
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one may speak of the sources of a system or of having source.
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