That sounds like the description of an interpreter.
A machine code program. Machine code is the native language of the machine and the only language actually understood by the machine. However, program instructions can be written using a high-level programming language that the computer can translate into machine code using another machine code program called a compiler.
Computers use machine language, which are coded instructions in binary.
They understand machine code, i.e. Binary Digits.
Machine language is the computer instructions in memory--the actual bits used by the machine hardware or microcode interpreter. To "look" at it, it has to be converted to a human-readable form. Often, it is printed as a sequence of hexadecimal numbers, usually tagged with the memory address. Sometimes it is processed by a disassembler program, which tries to translate the code into assembly language instructions and data. This is not always successful since in machine architectures that mix data and instructions, it can be difficult to determine which program areas are data and which are instructions.
computer language translators are programming tools that translate high level languages into the machine language. they include:1)assembler-translates assembly language into machine language. 2)compiler-translates the high level languages into the machine language.
Theoretically, yes. Practically, no.
Translator is defined as a computer program that converts instructions written in one language to another without changing the initial logic in terms of computer language.
Both, compiler and assembler, are software tools which translate instructions written in a programming language into executable machine code. (Both will typically require additional tools, such as a linker, in the process.) An assembler recognizes a machine-specific assembly language. This is a low-level language with a one-to-one relationship between language (assembly) instructions and machine code instructions. A compiler recognizes a generally machine-independent language such as the C programming language. These are higher level languages compared to the assembly languages, generally offering a one-to-many relationship between language instructions and expressions, and the resulting machine code instructions.
assembler
An assembler is a machine code program that converts low-level symbolic assembly language instructions into machine code. Assembly language is a second generation programming language.
the reason why we translate is that source code may be in assembly( low level language) or high level language and the only language computer understand is 0s and 1s which is binary code so the program written in either assembly or high level language must be convert or translate to binary and program written in HLL are in English form while the assembly are equivalent machine language.
Machine language are the set of instructions that are executed directly by the central processing unit of the computer. It include 0 and 1.