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What did Samuel Benedict invent?
he invented egg benidict the English muffin
What is difference between source programm and an abject module?
Source code is the "source" of a program. This means that this is the code provided by a programmer in a human readable and modifiable form. When a programmer writes a program, he/she will develop source code in a programming language such as C, C++, maybe Pascal among others. An object module can mean two different things depending on the context. An object module generally is an intermediate step between source code and an executable file like a .EXE on Windows. An executable file is actually what is generated by a compiler (like GCC or Visual C++) from source code and is effectively "machine language". It is not human readable and to a certain extend is not even machine readable as a whole. The way it works is that part of an executable file contains information to tell the operating system how to read the file into memory and where to start running it. The operating system will then tell the CPU where to start reading the program while it is in memory. The executable is a series of instructions understandable by the CPU and it performs them one by one as the program defines. Consider this overall process of compiling as someone writing a recipe for a certain type of food and then another person will compile a list of instructions in way that a resturant kitchen staff can follow it over and over. A different compiler might even translate the recipe to a different spoken language. In a similar fashion, one compiler might translate from C to Intel x86 while another would translate to IBM PowerPC. An object file often is an intermediate step between source and executable. This file is the result of compiling a single source file as opposed to all the source files of an entire program. Some programs fit in a single source file, but others can be hundreds or even thousands of source files. To compile the Linux kernel in it's full form as a single static executable can require compiling tens of thousands of files. Once each file is mostly translated to machine language and stored as an object file, a program called a linker is used to merge those files together into a single executable. This process might be seems as taking the recipe for and English muffin, another for hollandaise sauce and a final one for Eggs Benedict and merging all the steps together into a single recipe which a kitchen staff can execute in a given order to start with raw ingredients and produce the final product.
