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Lecture 1 - Programming Language Compiler Flashcards

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6 (Importance of Studying Programming Languages)

Importance of Studying Programming Languages

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  • To improve your ability to develop effective algorithms
  • To improve use of your existing programming language
  • To increase your vocabulary of useful programming constructs
  • To allow better choice of programming language
  • To make it easier to learn a new language
  • To make it easier to design a new language
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6 (Importance of Studying Programming Languages)

Importance of Studying Programming Languages

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  • To improve your ability to develop effective algorithms
  • To improve use of your existing programming language
  • To increase your vocabulary of useful programming constructs
  • To allow better choice of programming language
  • To make it easier to learn a new language
  • To make it easier to design a new language
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is a computer program that transforms code written in a high-level programming language into the machine code

Compiler and Interpretation

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Compiler

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It is a program which translates the human-readable code to a language a computer processor understands (binary 1 and 0 bits)

Compiler and Interpretation

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Compiler

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compiler is only program and cannot fix errors found in that program.

Compiler and Interpretation

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Compiler

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is a computer program, which coverts each high-level program statement into the machine code. This includes source code, pre-compiled code, and scripts.

Compiler and Interpreter

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Interpreter

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do the same job which is converting higher level programming language to machine code.

Compiler and Interpreter

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compiler and interpreters

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will convert the code into machine code (create an exe) before program run

Compiler and Interpreter

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compiler

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convert code into machine code when the program is run.

Compiler and Interpreter

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Interpreters

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Compiled code runs faster

KEY DIFFERENCES OF COMPILER AND INTERPRETER

Compiler and Interpreter

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Compiler

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Interpreted code runs slower

KEY DIFFERENCES OF COMPILER AND INTERPRETER

Compiler and Interpreter

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Interpreter

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? takes an inter program

KEY DIFFERENCES OF COMPILER AND INTERPRETER

Compiler and Interpreter

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Compiler

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? takes a single line of code

KEY DIFFERENCES OF COMPILER AND INTERPRETER

Compiler and Interpreter

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Interpreter

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? will parse all of the language statements for its correctness. If incorrect, throws an error

KEY DIFFERENCES OF COMPILER AND INTERPRETER

Compiler and Interpreter

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Compiler

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No linking of files or machine code generation

KEY DIFFERENCES OF COMPILER AND INTERPRETER

Compiler and Interpreter

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Interpreter

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If no error, the compiler will convert source code to machine

KEY DIFFERENCES OF COMPILER AND INTERPRETER

Compiler and Interpreter

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Source statements executed line by line during execution

KEY DIFFERENCES OF COMPILER AND INTERPRETER

Compiler and Interpreter

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Interpreter

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It links different code files into a runnable program

KEY DIFFERENCES OF COMPILER AND INTERPRETER

Compiler and Interpreter

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? reads the source code, outputs executable code

Role of Compiler

Compiler and Interpreter

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Translates software written in a ? into instructions that computer can understand.

Role of Compiler

Compiler and Interpreter

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higher-level language

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It converts the text that a programmer writes into a format the ? can understand.

Role of Compiler

Compiler and Interpreter

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The process of ? is relatively complicated. It spends a lot of time analyzing and processing the program

Role of Compiler

Compiler and Interpreter

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compilation

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The executable result is some form of machine-specific ?

Role of Compiler

Compiler and Interpreter

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binary code

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The ? converts the source code line-by-line during RUN Time

Role of Interpreter

Compiler and Interpreter

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interpreter

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completely translates a program written in a high-level language into machine level language

Role of Interpreter

Compiler and Interpreter

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Interpreter allows evaluation and ? of the program while it is executing.

Role of Interpreter

Compiler and Interpreter

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modification

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Relatively less time spent for analyzing and processing the ?

Role of Interpreter

Compiler and Interpreter

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Program execution is relatively slow compared to ?

Role of Interpreter

Compiler and Interpreter

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(5) Compiler Construction Tools

Compiler Construction Tools

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  • Scanner generators
  • Syntax-directed translation engines
  • Parser generators
  • Automatic code generators
  • Data-flow engines
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This tool takes regular expressions as input. For example LEX for Unix Operating System.

Compiler Construction Tools

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Scanner generators

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These software tools offer an intermediate code by using the parse tree.

Compiler Construction Tools

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Syntax-directed translation engines

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It has a goal of associating one or more translations with each node of the parse tree.

Compiler Construction Tools

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Syntax-directed translation engines

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A ? takes a grammar as input and automatically generates source code which can parse streams of characters with the help of a grammar.

Compiler Construction Tools

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Parser generators

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Takes intermediate code and converts them into Machine Language

Compiler Construction Tools

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Automatic code generators

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This tool is helpful for code optimization.

Compiler Construction Tools

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Data-flow engines

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Here, information is supplied by user and intermediate code is compared to analyze any relation.

Compiler Construction Tools

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Data-flow engines

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It is also known as data-flow analysis

Compiler Construction Tools

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Data-flow engines

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It helps you to find out how values are transmitted from one part of the program to another part.

Compiler Construction Tools

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Data-flow engines

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