Compiler

  • Authors:
  • Ole Agesen;Sriram Sankar

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • Encyclopedia of Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

A compiler is a program that translates programs expressed in a source language into equivalent programs expressed in a target language. Usually, but not always, the source language is high level, such as Pascal or Java (q.v.), and the target language is low level, such as assembler code or even pure machine code.