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Generally, it refers to a byte-centric opcode-based structure, with 1 (or more) bytes for an opcode, and usually any arguments directly following. Usually, it is understood to be interpreted linearly as well (similar to machine code), and often handling control flow via offsets and jumps, rather than being tree or graph structured or using high-level control flow.
Its main property then is usually that of being similar to, but at the same time usually far less complex and bit-twiddly than, machine code (as well as traditionally interpreted or JIT-compiled rather than being directly run on a piece of hardware). <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/174.18.204.116|174.18.204.116]] ([[User talk:174.18.204.116|talk]]) 18:56, 2 October 2009 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
==Layman's terms==
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