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| a program code unrelated to the hardware of a particular computer and requiring conversion to the code used by the computer before the program can be used. |
Pseudocode
A notation resembling a programming language but not intended for actual compilation. It usually combines some of the structure of a programming language with an informal natural-language description of the computations to be carried out. It is often produced by CASE systems as a basis for later hand coding.
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