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- 1High level codeBoth machine code and assembly languages are hardware specific. A high-level language is a programming language that uses English and mathematical symbols in its instructions. To execute a program in a high-level language, it can be compiled or interpreted
- 2low level codeIn computer science, a low-level programming language is a programming language that provides little or no abstraction from a computer's instruction set architecture—commands or functions in the language map closely to processor instructions. Generally this refers to either machine code or assembly language
- 3assemblerAn assembler is a program that takes basic computer instructions and converts them into a pattern of bits that the computer's processor can use to perform its basic operations. Some people call these instructions assembler language and others use the term assembly language.
- 4compilerA compiler is a special program that processes statements written in a particular programming language and turns them into machine language or "code" that a computer's processor uses. Typically, a programmer writes language statements in a language such as Pascal or C one line at a time using an editor . The file that is created contains what are called the source statements . The programmer then runs the appropriate language compiler, specifying the name of the file that contains the source statements
- 5registerA register is a discrete memory location within the CPU designed to hold temporary data and instructions
- 6exam style questionQ. describe the purpose of an interpreter
A. The interpreter is used to translate high level code in a machine but the user is able to see a d adapt the source code
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