programming language

programming language

1. IDE

   • An integrated development environment is a software application that provides comprehensive facilities to computer programmers for software development.
   • An IDE normally consists of a source code editor, build automation tools, and a debugger. Most modern IDEs have intelligent code completion.
   • An IDE is a standard electronic interface used between a computer motherboard's data paths or bus and the computer's disk storage devices.

2. Translator

   • A translator is a computer program for specifying a program in one target programming language that is functionally equivalent to that in a different language
   • A translator is a programming language processor that converts a computer program from one language to another. It takes a program written in source code and converts it into machine code.
   • Translators work without losing the functional or logical structure of the original program

3. Debugger

   • A debugger is a computer program that is used to test and debug other programs.
   • For example, the program might have tried to use an instruction not available on the current version of the CPU or attempted to access unavailable or protected memory.
   • debugging is the step by step process of finding errors or bugs in a program so that the bugs can be removed to make the program function in the way it was desired.

4. Interpreter

   • an interpreter is a computer program that directly executes, performs, instructions written in a programming or scripting language, without requiring them previously to have been compiled into a machine language program.

5. Editor

   • A source code editor is a text editor program designed specifically for editing source code of computer programs. It may be a standalone application or it may be built into an IDE or web browser.
   • A text editor is used to edit plain text files. Text editors differ from word processors, such as Microsoft Word or WordPerfect, in that they do not add additional formatting information to documents.
   • An Editor is a software program that allows users to create or manipulate plain text computer files.

6. Compiler

   • A 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.
   • Usually, a programmer writes language statements in a language such as Pascal or C one line at a time using an editor.
   • A compiler transforms source code written in a programming language (the source language) into another computer language (the target language), with the latter often having a binary form known as object code.