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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A computer runs on binary instructions. It is programmed in some human readable language. When it is compiled the programming language is converted to binary.

We could see the binary instructions but they would not mean anything to a person.

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