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Semantic gap

The difference between the complex operations performed by high-level language constructs and the simple ones provided by computer instruction sets.

It was in an attempt to try to close this gap that computer architects designed increasingly complex instruction set computers.

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Self-Extensible Language Self Extracting Archive self-reference selvage SEM	Complex Instruction Set Computer	semantic network semantics semaphore semi Semi-Automatic Ground Environment