A regular column about programming. Because if/when the machines take over ... all the internet apps and code that made cyberspace mainstream. BASIC brought coding out of the ivory towers ...

If you can master the most modern tools of the coding ... level programming language lets you generate basic apps with standard features like menus, and buttons, in just a few lines of code.

translate the source code into byte code for a virtual machine, which is then run in an interpreter for the current architecture. The interpreter may be boosted by a just-in-time (JIT) compiler ...

The idea of loading and running a stored program ... architecture is the basic premise of almost all modern computers. But what does this all have to do with assembly language and machine code?