We generally write a computer program using a high-level language. A high-level language is one which is understandable by us humans. It contains words and phrases from the English (or other) language. But a computer does not understand high-level language. It only understands program written in 0's and 1's in binary, called the machine code. A program written in high-level language is called a source code. We need to convert the source code into machine code and this is accomplished by compilers and interpreters. Hence, a compiler or an interpreter is a program that converts program written in high-level language into machine code understood by the computer. Interpreter : 1. Translates program one statement at a time. 2. It takes less amount of time to analyze the source code but the overall execution time is slower. 3. No intermediate object code is generated, hence are memory efficient. ...
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