Wikipedia: History of Compiler

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A compiler is a program that translates a source language

A compiler is a program that translates code in a source language

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Typical compilers will first translate the source code into an intermediate form
called object code. A set of object files, which need not have all come from

Typical compilers output so called objects, which basically contain machine code augmented by information about the name and location of entry points and external calls (to functions not contained in the object). A set of object files, which need not have all come from

	Revision 23 . . December 13, 2001 4:08 am by (logged).35.241.xxx [you translate an expression, not the language itself; rewrite object description]
	Revision 22 . . December 13, 2001 2:11 am by (logged).20.128.xxx [change: source code -> source language (see /Talk)]
	Revision 21 . . October 26, 2001 2:08 pm by Kragen [Updated a link or two and improved a little accuracy.]