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major reference computer
An alternative to this approach is what is now known as compilation. In compilation, the entire HLL program is converted to machine language and stored for later execution. Although translation may take many hours or even days, once the translated program is stored, it can be recalled anytime in the form of a fast-executing machine-language program.
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execution of programs ( in computer program
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...program is to be executed next. Certain operating-system programs, however, may operate as independent units to facilitate the programming process. These include translators (either assemblers or compilers), which transform an entire program from one language to another; interpreters, which execute a program sequentially, translating at each step; and debuggers, which execute a program...
in computer science: Program translation )...An interpreter is software that examines a computer program one instruction at a time and calls on code to execute the operations required by that instruction. This is a rather slow process. A compiler is software that translates a computer program as a whole into machine code that is saved for subsequent execution whenever desired. Much work has been done on making both the compilation...
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Hopper Hopper, Grace Murray
In 1949 Hopper joined the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp., where she designed an improved compiler, which translated a programmer’s instructions into computer codes. She remained with the firm when it was taken over by Remington Rand (1951) and by Sperry Rand Corp. (1955). In 1957 her division developed Flow-Matic, the first English-language data-processing compiler. She retired from the...
Marion Cole (compiler and ed.), Fogie (1967).
compiler of an important collection of Scottish poetry from the 15th and 16th centuries (the golden age of Scottish literature).
A prosperous Edinburgh merchant, he compiled his anthology of verse, known as the Bannatyne Manuscript, while living in isolation during a plague in 1568. His anthology contains many of the best-known poems of the courtly poets known as makaris, or Scottish Chaucerians; it also preserves work by such poets as Alexander Scott who otherwise would be virtually unknown, and it includes much interesting anonymous verse as well. It influenced the 18th-century Scottish revival, when Allan Ramsay reprinted a number of the poems (though often in altered form) in his Ever Green (1724). In 1823 the Bannatyne Club was founded in Edinburgh for the purpose of promoting the study of Scottish history and literature.
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compilation of “Al-Mufaḍḍalīyāt” Mufaḍḍalīyāt, Al-
an anthology of ancient Arabic poems, compiled by al-Mufaḍḍal ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaʿlah between 762 and 784. It is of the highest importance as a record of the thought and poetic art of Arabia in the last two pre-Islamic centuries. Not more than five or six of the 126 poems appear to have been composed by poets born under Islam, and, though a certain number converted...
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contribution to Arabic literature Arabic literature
...culture and its values, with chivalry, generosity, endurance, and hospitality as major components. (As a counter to the length of these classics of early Arabic poetry, the 9th-century philologist al-Mufaḍḍal al-Ḍabbī compiled a collection of shorter ancient poems, initially for pedagogical purposes, that came to be known as ...
Constance Tibbs Hobson and Deborra A. Richardson (compilers), Ulysses Kay: A Bio-Bibliography (1994).
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