What is a compiler?

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What is a compiler?..

Answer / vaibhav

A compiler is a special type of computer program that
translates a human readable text file into a form that the
computer can more easily understand. At its most basic
level, a human will operate very slowly and find the
information contained in the long string of 1s and 0s
incomprehensible. A compiler is a computer program that
bridges this gap.
Some compilers are multistage or multiple pass. A first
pass could take a very natural language and make it closer
to a computer understandable language. A second or even a
third pass could take it to the final stage, the executable
file.

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What is a compiler?..

Answer / vignesh1988i

compailer is a computer program which translates an high
level language to a computer accepting language.....(0's &
1's)

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What is a compiler?..

Answer / v.vijayakumar

Compiler is used to translate the high-level language
program into machine code at a time. It doesn't require
special instruction to store in a memory, it stores
automatically. The Execution time is less compared
to Interpreter.

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What is a compiler?..

Answer / nayan prakash

compiler is a program which translate one language (source
code)to another language(target code).
sometimes comiler is called as linker,debuger,lode and go.

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What is a compiler?..

Answer / narendra pal

Complier is a program which convert programming language into machine language. Because our processor can not understand programming language.

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What is a compiler?..

Answer / shakeel ahmed

A compiler is s/w which converts high level language into
machine language.The compiler convert "whole program at a
time".Example "c" uses complier.The execution time is less
in complier.

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What is a compiler?..

Answer / sayadhri

compiler translate high level
language to machine lavel
language. Computer
understand only binary
format 0's and ,1's

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