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High-level programming languages like C++, Visual Basic, and Java need to be translated into machine language for computers to execute them. This translation is done by translators, which include assemblers, interpreters, and compilers, each serving different purposes in converting code. Assemblers convert basic instructions to machine code, interpreters execute code line by line in real time, and compilers convert source code into a binary file for execution.

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Chapter 6 ICT-pages-5

High-level programming languages like C++, Visual Basic, and Java need to be translated into machine language for computers to execute them. This translation is done by translators, which include assemblers, interpreters, and compilers, each serving different purposes in converting code. Assemblers convert basic instructions to machine code, interpreters execute code line by line in real time, and compilers convert source code into a binary file for execution.

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Programming Language Translators

1. Most software packages or programs are written in high-level programming languages.


For example: C++, Visual Basic and Java.
2. In order for the computer to be able to carry out the instructions, the high-level languages
must be translated into machine language before the computer can understand and
execute the instructions in the program.
3. The translation of high-level languages to machine language is performed by a translator.
4. Types of translator:
• Assembler
- An 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.
- Ex: MACRO-80 Assembler and Microsoft MASM
• Interpreter
- Interpreter is used to interpreting and execute a program directly from its source
without compiling it first. The source code of an interpreted language is interpreted
and executed in real time when the user executes it.
- The interpreter will read each code, converts it to machine code and executes it
line by line until the end of the program
- Ex: BASIC, Logo, Smalltalk.
• Compiler
- The source code (in text format) will be converted into machine code which is a file
consisting of binary machine code that can be executed on a computer.
- It records them in the program-listing file if the compiler encounters any errors
- It is generally more convenient to develop a new program using an interpreter rather
than a compiler.

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