Re: compiled language
Re: compiled language
- Subject: Re: compiled language
- From: Markus Hitter <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2002 13:08:54 +0200
Am Sonntag den, 7. April 2002, um 12:10, schrieb Rita:
Do you know what is the meaning of "compiled
language"?
The counterpart to an interpreted language.
"Compiling" means to translate the human readable language (C,
Smalltalk, ...) to machine readable code. The human readable
data representation is translated to an machine readable data
representation, too. Usually, there's a second step, linking,
which assembles the various parts (functions, methods,
variables ...) of an application together. The final result can
be executed.
Interpreted languages (BASIC, shell scripts, etc. come to mind)
however are not compiled; the human readable code is read at the
time the application is executed and translated instruction for
instruction to something making sense to the machine.
Of course, there are various flavors in between, like
just-in-time compilers, precompiled languages, runtime linking;
some flavors can even both: run interpreted and be compiled.
Advantage of compiling is the higher speed of execution,
interpreting is more slim and more flexible.
Hope that helps,
Markus
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Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter
http://www.jump-ing.de/
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