A compiler is a computer program that converts the program as written by the programmer, or the "source code" as it is known, into a different form that the computer can understand. This second form is called "object code" and represents very...

The compiler is a program that translates the source language (which takes the form of a written program), into machine code, the language of the machine. There are several portions to the compiler, some of the most prominent being the lexical...

Programming languages can be divided into two major categories: low level and high level. "Assembly language" and "machine language" are called low-level languages because they more than others "speak" the language the computer understands. On the...

Computer program that translates a higher-level programming language (e.g. FORTRAN, LISP or PROLOG) from a (problem-oriented) notation into an equivalent machine-oriented notation. The higher-level language is called the ‘source code,’ the...

Computer software that translates (compiles) source code written in a high-level language (e.g., C++) into a set of machine-language instructions that can be understood by a digital computer's CPU. Compilers are very large programs, with error-checking...

A compiler is a computer program (or set of programs) that translates text written in a computer language (the source language) into another computer language (the target language). The original sequence is usually called the source code and the output...