The Compiler reference article from the Simple Wikipedia on 24-Jul-2004 (provided by Fixed Reference: snapshots of Wikipedia from wikipedia.org)

Compiler

In computer science, a compiler is a program that translates a program written in a programming language into a program written in machine code, that is a language that is the processor's native language. Since different processors have diffent languages of machine code, it is easier for a programmer to use a compiler to make a program rather than write the machine code by hand.

This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by adding to it.

This is the "Compiler" reference article from the Simple Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. See also our Disclaimer.