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'''Redcode''' is the name of the [[programming language]] used in the game [[Core War]]. It is executed by a [[virtual machine]] known as a ''Memory Array Redcode Simulator'', or ''MARS''. The design of Redcode is loosely based on actual [[Complex instruction set computer|CISC]] [[assembly language]]s of the early [[1980s]] era, but contains several features not usually found in actual computer systems.

== Key Language Features ==

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The Guidelines describe a set of only eight instructions, but it is stated that the earliest implementations of Redcode by Dewdney and Jones had a larger instruction set. Indeed, the language described in the Guidelines is best seen more as a basis for other developers to expand on than as an actual standard.

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