About compilation and programming

Programming is the process of using a programming language to write program code with the help of a computer to achieve a certain purpose or solve a certain problem, and finally get the result.

What is a compiler?

Compiler: refers to a program that can convert a program in one language into another language, which is logically equivalent to the former. If the source language is a "high-level language" such as FORTRAN, Pascal, C, Ada, Smalltalk or Java, and the target language is a "low-level language" such as assembly language, it is called a compiler.

Note the difference between a compiler and an interpreter. An interpreter in a language is a different program: it takes the source program written in that language as input, but does not produce the target program, but executes the source program itself while interpreting.

The connotation of the term "compilation" is to realize the equivalent transformation from the algorithm expressed in the source language to the algorithm expressed in the target language.

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