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A program is code or executable software sitting in a file on some storage device
Code refers to a programming language, e.g., C++, BASIC, VisualBASIC (VB), Perl, Java, ...
Executable files are binary files (DOS .exe or .com) or interpreted files (.bas, .vbs, .pl, .js, ...)
A process (or task) is a program that is currently running
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