[Term of the Day]: Compiler
Term of the Day
"Compiler"
Definition — What is Compiler?
A complier is a software program that converts high level programming code written by a programmer into machine language code (binary code).
Imagine you are on a vacation to a beautiful country where people do not speak/understand your language. You will somehow require a language translator (either a human or an app) to communicate with the people. Similarly, to use a computer, a program must be created in a machine language consisting of binary codes 0s and 1s that the computer can understand. However, directly writing a program in machine language requires advanced techniques, and the normal approach is to first write a program in a programming language closer to human language and then translate that program into machine language.
Similar to the language translator in the above scenario, the compiler software performs this translation in computers and this process is called compilation.