Readability By Humans
It has been said that machine code is so unreadable that the United States Copyright Office cannot even identify whether a particular encoded program is an original work of authorship. Hofstadter compares machine code with the genetic code: "Looking at a program written in machine language is vaguely comparable to looking at a DNA molecule atom by atom."
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