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National Teaching and Learning Change ProgrammeInformation and Communication Technology: Dictionary

compiler

A program that translates a high-level language program, source code, into a computer’s machine code or some other low-level language. Generally each high-level language instruction generates several machine-code instructions. It produces an independent program which can be run.

Related terms
compilation errorcompilecompile timeinterpretersource codesymbol tablehigh-level languagemachine coderuninstruction
Term sub categories
Programming › assemblers, compilers and interpreters
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