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Statement

Last Updated May 24, 2021 1:56 pm

An instruction written in a high-level language. A statement directs the computer to perform a specified action. A single statement in a high-level language can represent several machine-language instructions. Programs consist of statements and expressions. An expression is a group of symbols that represent a value.

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