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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. 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 …

  3. 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 …

  4. 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 …

  5. How Does A Compiler Work? - Software Engineering Stack Exchange

    A compiler is a computer program (or set of instructions) that transforms source code written in a programming language (the source language) into another computer language (the target language, …

  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. 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 …

  9. 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 …

  10. 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 …