Programming Language Translators
Programming Language Translators What is the need of programming language translators? Programming language translators are needed to translate high-level program to a machine language program, because computers can only understand machine language(Zeros and Ones) where as high-level programming languages are written in more human friendly manner ( machine-independent manner ). Types of programming language translators Compiler Interpreter Assembler Compiler It converts the whole high-level program at once and any errors will be reported after the conversion. Also it saves a file containing machine code which can be executed and run on any operating system without the compiler. Interpreter It is also a high-level programming translator which converts program line-by-line and will output any errors detected while converting. Interpreter is faster than the compiler since it immediately executes the code upon reading the code. Contrast between interpreter and comp...