Why must a program be decompiled before viewing its code? If the computer is running the program, shouldn’t we be able to see what it’s running?

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Why must a program be decompiled before viewing its code? If the computer is running the program, shouldn’t we be able to see what it’s running?

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Computers run code in binary, if we read it, even changing/translating it to proper text, it would be unreadable garbage. But writing it that way sucks because it’s unreadable, so we have the language that we write the code in (C, LUA, etc) and then we run it through a compiler so the computer can read it and do the stuff we want.

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