History of Compiler/Talk

	Revision 5 . . December 13, 2001 2:14 am by (logged).20.128.xxx [add: explanation why "source language" is more appropiate than "source code"]
	Revision 4 . . September 30, 2001 8:43 pm by (logged).157.13.xxx [correction: compiler definition. suggestion: history of compilers]

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I changed "source code" to "source language" because a compiler can be pretty anything that translates a language to another one. This includes a lot of translations which are not source code, such as binary-to-binary translations and just-in-time compilation processes. "Source code" in its normal meaning refers to a list of instructions in a language understandable to humans. Source language can be anything that can be griped by formal language definitions (and that is pretty much anything). ---