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encyclopedist: a person who compiles (or writes for)

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(computer science) a program that decodes instructions written
in a higher order language and produces an assembly language
program
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A compiler is a computer program that translates a computer
program written in one computer language (called the source
language) into an equivalent program written in another
computer language (called the output, object, or target
language).
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A program which translates the source code for a library unit into
an object module in a program library.
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A program that translates a high-level language, such as Basic,
into machine language.
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A software-development tool that translates high-level language
programs into the machine-language instructions that a
particular processor can understand and execute. OCde
optimisation reduce instructions number and specialize the code
for a processor. These optimizations have to take into acount the
processor architecture features.
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A program that translates a high level symbolic language to a
low level machine language.
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A program to translate source code into code to be executed by
a computer. The Java compiler translates Java source code into
Java bytecode. See also interpreter.
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A company that puts together various pieces of information to
form a list of individuals that has similar characteristics, such as
age, income and buying habits.
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A program which translates source code into object code. Other
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A program that turns a program written in a high-level language
into an executable program. Takes C++ source code and creates
equivalent machine code. Example: A command line compiler for
C++, available on crux, is called g++. We run it as follows: g++
myprogram.cpp -o myprogram This reads the file
myprogram.cpp, which should contain a C++ program, and
creates the executable called myprogram from it. We compiled
myprogram.cpp.
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a program the converts programming code into a form that can
be used by a computer.
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A program that translates high-level programming languages
into machine code that can be stored and subsequently
executed.
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A program involved in the first step of converting source code
written in a high-level language such as C to an executable
program.
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A program which takes text in a particular programming
language, and produces either an Executable or an Object File.
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This is an application that converts a programming language into
machine language program.
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Computer program in charge of converting a source program
(composed of sentences according to the computer language
syntax) in an executable program (composed of machine-
readable instructions).
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A program that takes a source code file, processes it, and
generates a translated version of the source code that the
computer can understand. This translation is called an object and
is usually saved in an object file.
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A computer program that translates a set of instructions written
in a high-level language such as Fortran into a form (machine
code) that can be understood directly by the computer.
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converts the source code of a program to machine language
placing the result in an object code file.
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A program which converts high-level source language
instructions into executable machine code
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A compiler is a special program that processes statements
written in a particular programming language and turns them
into machine language or "code" that a computer's processor
uses.
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Provides runtime compilation of Java bytecode, thereby speeding
Java performance.
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A program that reads another program, and then parses that
script into a form that can then be executed. C is a language
that uses a compiler.
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