Give an example of a compiler?

Answer 1

A programming language can be made into a working program either by Interpretation or compilation. There isn't a Compiler and an Interpreter language. But any code any be made into a program by compiling it using an Interpreter (checks a line of your code at a time and stops at errors) or compiler (checks the entire code at a time and displays all errors at the end).

As the Answer above states any language can be Interpreted (the program is executed one line at a time, and errors are reported when and if they occur) and any language can be compiled (the whole program is rendered as a single executable file, and run in one go).

But some languages are usually interpreted (though they may sometimes be compiled) and some languages are usually compiled (though they may be sometimes interpreted).

An interpreted language is more easily debugged (and errors will usually be less disastrous). A compiled language runs faster (and the executable file will be smaller and more portable).

So interpreted languages tend to include languages used for teaching and also languages used for robotic control (when you drive robots you will often want them to do things one step at a time).

BASIC is a teaching language, it is usually interpreted. FORTH (for radio telescopes) and LOGO (for floor crawlers) are other languages which are usually interpreted, since they are robotic.

Languages which are used for commercial programming will nearly always be compiled. C, C++, C# are nearly always compiled, and so is Pascal and all its derivatives (Oberon, Delphi &c.).

Answer 2

People have made, and continue to make, many new compilers.

Some of the most famous and influential are:

* A-0, the first compiler, written by Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper in 1952 at Remington Rand corporation, which later developed into COBOL.

* The FORTRAN team led by John Backus at IBM in 1957

* The first self-hosting compiler was created for Lisp by Tim Hart and Mike Levin at MIT in 1962.

* Niklaus Wirth's PL/0 compiler, used to teach compiler construction in the 1970s.

* Simula, invented in the late 1960s by Nygaard and Dahl as a superset of Algol 60, was the first language designed to support object-oriented programming.

* The first implementation of the C Programming language was developed by Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson at Bell Labs between 1969 and 1973.

* Forth, first implemented by Chuck Moore. Released to other programmers in the early 1970s.

* UCSD Pascal around 1977

* Smalltalk

* Borland C++ (now Embarcadero C++)

* Borland Turbo Pascal

* gcc

* ...

Answer 3

Java is a typical example. The high-level source code is compiled to Java byte code suitable for low-level interpretation by the Java virtual machine, which produces the actual machine code. The byte code is highly portable; once compiled it can be executed upon any physical machine with a suitable Java virtual machine implementation.

Answer 4

Java Language is both Interpreted and Compiled.

Answer 5

Some examples include Java compiler, C compiler, C# compiler, Pascal compiler, etc. - basically, many different programming languages include compilers.