How to write a very basic compiler - Software Engineering Stack …
How can I write a basic compiler to convert a static text into a machine readable file? The next step will be introducing variables into the compiler; imagine that we want to write a compiler which compile …
How do I create my own programming language and a compiler for it
Jun 16, 2011 · A "compiler" is any device that translates from one programming language to another. One of the nice things about having a C# compiler that turns C# into IL, and an IL compiler (the …
Why doesn't Python need a compiler? - Software Engineering Stack …
Feb 26, 2012 · Just wondering (now that I've started with C++ which needs a compiler) why Python doesn't need a compiler? I just enter the code, save it as an exec, and run it. In C++ I have to make …
history - Why was the first compiler written before the first ...
Jul 28, 2014 · The first compiler was written by Grace Hopper in 1952 while the Lisp interpreter was written in 1958 by John McCarthy's student Steve Russell. Writing a compiler seems like a much …
Novice programmer(s) frustrated by lack of a glossary of compiler errors
May 19, 2018 · Compiler errors that reference unfamiliar concepts or seem surprising should be seen as prompts to deepen ones knowledge of the language. Similarly for cases where the compiler is …
programming languages - Is Python Interpreted or Compiled?
It's worth noting that languages are not interpreted or compiled, but rather language implementations either interpret or compile code. You noted that Ruby is an "interpreted language", but you can …
c++ - Is it bad practice to write code that relies on compiler ...
Oct 12, 2017 · 4 Whenever you use a compiler, the understanding is that it will produce machine- or byte-code for you. It does not guarantee anything about what that generated code is like, except that …
Compiler Warnings - Software Engineering Stack Exchange
Jul 1, 2014 · Many compilers have warning messages to warn the programmers about potential runtime, logic and performance errors, most times, you quickly fix them, but what about unfixable warnings? …
Why was the Itanium processor difficult to write a compiler for?
Apr 17, 2015 · The compiler aspect was not the only aspect which was overly ambitious. Is there any reason why Intel didn't specify a "simple Itanium bytecode" language, and provide a tool that …
c - How does a compiler work when it's not directly compiling to ...
My compiler will act just as a parser. Well, then it is not a compiler, nor is it an interpreter. It is a parser. Is this how other languages like Python and Javascript work? or do they create their own machine …