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n. ~ 1. An individual who assembles materials from various sources and organizes it for publication. - 2. Computing · A program that translates high-level programming code into machine code that serve [..]
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A program to translate source code into code to be executed by a computer. The Java(TM) compiler translates source code written in the Java programming language into bytecode for the Java virtual mach [..]
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A program that translates programming language (source code) into machine executable instructions (object code).
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early 14c., from Anglo-French compilour, Old French compileur "author, chronicler," from Latin compilatorem, agent noun from compilare (see compile). Another form of the word current in earl [..]
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A program to translate source code into code to be executed by a computer. The Java compiler translates source code written in the Java programming language into bytecode for the Java virtual machine [..]
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This is an application that converts a programming language into a machine language program.
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A program that translates human-readable programs into a form the computer understands. The input (source code) to the compiler is a description of an algorithm in a problem- oriented language; its ou [..]
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(1) (IEEE) A computer program that translates programs expressed in a high-level language into their machine language equivalents. (2) The compiler takes the finished source code listing as input and [..]
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Definition A program that compiles source code into an executable program Common compilers are Java, C, C++, and Visual Basic Compilers.
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A computer program for compiling. Synonym compiling program.
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WebGuest Dictionary A compiler translates code written in a computer language into an executable form (machine language ).
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)A program that translates source code into object code. The compiler derives its name from the way it works, looking at the entire piece of source code and collecting and reorganizing the instruction [..]
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A person who selects and assembles written material from the works of various persons or bodies, or the various works of a single person or body, into a ordered whole, without editorial alteration of [..]
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A software application that translates English-like commands into machine language so that the computer can understand it. There are compilers for virtually every language on every platform. Those that create code on one platform for use on another are called cross compilers. Compilers take code written in a particular syntax and usually convert it [..]
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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.
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A software program that converts computer programming language into machine language that the computer can interpret.
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A program which converts programs written in a high-level programming language, i.e. as used by professional human programmers, into Machine Code, a language that can be "understood" [..]
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A computer program (or set of programs) that transforms source code written in a programming language into instructions that the microprocessor can understand and execute.
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A program that translates a source file written in a programming language (that presumably a human can understand) into some form of machine language that can be dealt with by a computer.
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A program that digests Java source code and produces JVM-format class files, or *.exe executables containing native machine code. The Four Types of Execution There is only one kind of compiler, but fo [..]
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(n) a person who compiles information (as for reference purposes)(n) (computer science) a program that decodes instructions written in a higher order language and produces an assembly language program [..]
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Compiler is a type of computer program that translates source code into object code. A compiler is likely to perform many or all of the following operations: lexing, preprocessing, parsing, semantic a [..]
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Compiler - A compiler-compiler, also known as a parser generator, is a utility for generating the source code of a parser, interpreter or compiler from an annotated language description in the form of [..]
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A program that converts higher level languages, (non-binary), into lower level machine language, (binary). A computer can only understand machine language. Humans can understand both, but due to the c [..]
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In programming, a compiler takes human readable source code and converts it into the binary code that the computer can understand. Key point: A compiler is a form of lossy compression and one-way [..]
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a tool that programmers use to convert their source code
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Compilers and interpreters are special programs that translate code typed by humans (a=2+3) into the language understood by computers (0011010100101010101001111). The difference between compiler and interpreter is this: – A compiler produces an executable file, but doesn’t execute our code. Therefore, text files written in C++ must be compiled to b [..]
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A computer program that translates source code that people (developers) wrote into a language that a computer can read. As a security measure, WHM allows you to disable your web server’s compilers for most users.
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A compiler is a software program that transforms high-level source code that is written by a developer in a high-level programming language into a low level object code (binary code) in machine langua [..]
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Strictly speaking, a program that munches up another program and spits out yet another file containing the program in a "more executable" form, typically containing native machine instructions. The perl program is not a compiler by this definition, but it does contain a kind of compiler that takes a program and turns it into a more execut [..]
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Strictly speaking, a program that munches up another program and spits out yet another file containing the program in a “more executable” form, typically containing native machine instructions. The pe [..]
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is a program that performs the process of compilation.
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A program that translates a complete high level language program into an independent machine code program.
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A program that translates human-readable source code into machine-executable object code. The object code is then executed directly by the computer. See also “Interpreter.”
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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 [..]
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A program which performs a process of compilation on a program written in a high level programming language.
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the part of a C++ implementation that produces object code from a translation unit. See also: front-end, back-end.
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Name and affiliation of the person responsible for compiling or most recently updating the information in a database record. [Neotectonics database field]
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A program that translates pieces of code written in high level languages into low level executable code.
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Compiler is a computer program which translates programs written in an high-level language (HLL) into assembly-l anguage instructions or machine code. Edit this content
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A program that reads source code, translates it into machine language, and writes the machine language to binary (object). code that can be directly loaded and executed.
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A compiler is a software program that takes source code from a programming language such as C++, and converts it into machine readable, executable code to be run on a computer.
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(computing) A compiler, computer program to translate between machine code and a readable program
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A program that translates high-level-language statements into codes that a computer can execute.
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