Dal saggio Programming Languages Explained di Paul Graham, pubblicato su Hackers & Imbianchini :
The high-level language that you feed the compiler is also known as source code, and the machine language translation it generates is called object code.
Da l'articolo di Wikipedia sul codice oggetto :
Object code, or sometimes object module, is what a computer compiler produces.
Da una definizione di "compilatore" :
Traditionally, the output of the compilation has been called object code or sometimes an object module. (Note that the term "object" here is not related to object-oriented programming.)
Quindi che è il termine oggetto relativo a?