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  1. 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 …

  2. 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 …

  3. 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 …

  4. 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 …

  5. compiler - Does an interpreter produce machine code? - Software ...

    Oct 23, 2015 · A Java compiler produces code for the JVM. So the target machine of a compiler can be a virtual machine that is not executed directly by the hardware. The main difference between …

  6. 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 know if modern

  7. 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? …

  8. 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 …

  9. c++ - Is it bad practice to write code that relies on compiler ...

    Oct 12, 2017 · When it comes to performance, you have to rely on compiler-specific behavior in general, and compiler optimizations in particular. A standard-compliant compiler is free to compile your code …

  10. 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 …