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'''Source-code compatibility''' (source-compatible) means that a program can run on [[central processing unit|computers]] (or [[operating system]]s), independently of [[binary-code compatibility]] and that the [[source code]] is needed for [[Software portability|portability]].<ref name="Baron Higbie 1992" /><br />
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The source code must be [[compiler|compiled]] before running, unless the computer used has an [[Interpreter (computing)|interpreter]] for the language at hand.<ref name="Data Processing Digest 1980" /> The term is also used for [[assembly language]] compatibility, where the source is a [[human-readable]] form of [[machine code]] that must be converted into numerical (i.e. executable) machine code by an [[Assembly language#Assembler|assembler]]. This is different from [[binary-code compatibility]], where no recompilation (or assembly) is needed.<ref name="Stern Monti Bachmann 1998" /><br />
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Source compatibility is a major issue in the developing of computer programs. For example, most [[Unix]] systems are source-compatible, as long as one uses only standard [[library (computing)|libraries]]. [[Microsoft Windows]] systems are source-compatible across one major family (the [[Windows NT]] family, from [[Windows NT 3.1|NT 3.1]] through [[Windows 11]], or the family that includes [[Windows 95]], [[Windows 98]], and [[Windows Me]]), with partial source compatibility between the two families.<br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[Backward compatibility]]<br />
* [[Source upgrade]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
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<ref name="Baron Higbie 1992">{{cite book<br />
| last1 = Baron<br />
| first1 = R.J.<br />
| last2 = Higbie<br />
| first2 = L.<br />
| title = Computer Architecture<br />
| publisher = Addison-Wesley Publishing Company<br />
| series = Addison-Wesley series in electrical and computer engineering<br />
| year = 1992<br />
| isbn = 978-0-201-50923-6<br />
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=CNdQAAAAMAAJ<br />
| access-date = 9 May 2018<br />
| page = 106<br />
}}</ref><br />
<ref name="Data Processing Digest 1980">{{cite book<br />
| title = Data Processing Digest<br />
| publisher = Data Processing Digest, Incorporated<br />
| issue = v. 26–27<br />
| year = 1980<br />
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=KaVIAAAAYAAJ<br />
| access-date = 9 May 2018<br />
| page = 21<br />
}}</ref><br />
<ref name="Stern Monti Bachmann 1998">{{cite book<br />
| last1 = Stern<br />
| first1 = M.<br />
| last2 = Monti<br />
| first2 = G.<br />
| last3 = Bachmann<br />
| first3 = V.<br />
| title = NT Enterprise Network Design<br />
| publisher = Sybex, Network Press<br />
| year = 1998<br />
| isbn = 978-0-7821-2156-8<br />
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Ixuh0wTZ4GwC<br />
| language = et<br />
| access-date = 9 May 2018<br />
| page = 17<br />
}}</ref><br />
}}<br />
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