Compilers often translate source code for a high-level language, such as C++, to object code for the current computer architecture, such as Intel x64. The object modules produced from multiple ...

Robert Thorpe has an article up at Real World Tech which aims to answer that question. </p><blockquote><p>Programmers think of a compiler as a program that takes input in the form of a high level ...

ALGO was a compiling system that automatically translated algebraic statements into machine language for the Bendix G-15 computer. This brochure is the 1960 operating manual for the compiler. A ...