How to write a very basic compiler - Software Engineering Stack …
Jack Crenshaw's Let's Build a Compiler, while unfinished, is an eminently readable introduction and tutorial. Nicklaus Wirth's Compiler Construction is a very good textbook on the basics of simple …
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 …
How does code work without getting compiled or interpreted?
Apr 29, 2021 · Note that Visual Studio Code is in no way special in this regard. Virtually every IDE will simply invoke an external compiler process for many reasons. Visual Studio, Eclipse, XCode, Rider,. …
programming languages - How were the first compilers made?
I always wonder this, and perhaps I need a good history lesson on programming languages. But since most compilers nowadays are made in C, how were the very first compilers made (AKA before C) or …
c++ - Is it bad practice to write code that relies on compiler ...
Oct 12, 2017 · I've been learning some C++, and often have to return large objects from functions that are created within the function. I know there's the pass by reference, return a pointer, and return a …
How Does A Compiler Work? - Software Engineering Stack Exchange
A compiler is a program that translates the source code for another program from a programing language into executable code. The source code is typically in a high-level programming language …
programming languages - Is Python Interpreted or Compiled?
It's worth noting that languages are not interpreted or compiled, but rather language implementations either interpret or compile code. You noted that Ruby is an "interpreted language", but you can …
Is every language written in C? - Software Engineering Stack Exchange
Dec 22, 2014 · Is each and every language written in C language? A language is a set of abstract mathematical rules and restrictions ("if I write this, that happens"). It isn't written in anything, really. It …
What is the history of the C compiler? - Software Engineering Stack ...
From wiki: Ritchie is best known as the creator of the C programming language and a key developer of the Unix operating system, and as co-author of the definitive book on C. Also from wiki: The first C …
Why doesn't Python need a compiler?
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 …