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B. Machine language
The primary language used by computers for direct processing is Machine language. This is the lowest-level programming language, consisting of binary code (sequences of 0s and 1s) that a computer's central processing unit (CPU) can execute directly without any further translation. It is the fundamental language of computer hardware.
- Assembly language is a low-level language that uses mnemonics, but it still requires an assembler to translate it into machine code.
- High-level language refers to human-readable languages like Python, Java, or C++, which require compilers or interpreters to convert them into machine code before execution.
- Python is a specific example of a high-level language, not the direct processing language.