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 …
How do I create my own programming language and a compiler …
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 …
Why doesn't Python need a compiler? - Software Engineering …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Is Ken Thompson's compiler hack still a threat?
Ken Thompson Hack (1984) Ken Thompson outlined a method for corrupting a compiler binary (and other compiled software, like a login script on a *nix system) in 1984. I was curious to …
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 …
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 …
Why are there so few C compilers?
Feb 19, 2015 · The question is based upon a false premise. Analog Devices, armcc, Bruce's C Compiler, the Bare-C Cross Compiler, the Borland compiler, the clang compiler, the Cosmic C …