Outline the need for a translation process from a higher level language to a lower level language. [2]
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A human-readable program must be translated into executable binary code / machine language code, which is the only language that the computer hardware can understand.
Explanation: Higher-level languages are designed to be understandable by humans. The processor cannot directly execute this code, so it must be translated into a lower-level machine language that the hardware can execute.
