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Python is an object-oriented, interpreted language. Internally to the Python interpreter, a Python program is converted to bytecode and interpreted using a virtual machine. Most modern programming languages have support for high-level abstractions while the instructions of a virtual machine are closer to the machine language instructions supported by hardware architectures, making the interpretation of bytecode easier than interpretation of the original source program.
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Lee, K.D. (2014). Assembly Language. In: Foundations of Programming Languages. Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13314-0_3
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