Definition of Compiler

Compiler

One who compiles; esp., one who makes books by compilation.

Related Definitions:

By, Compilation, One, Who

Compiler Quotations

At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler.
Dennis Ritchie

Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable.
Tim Berners-Lee

I'd rather have a search engine or a compiler on a deserted island than a game.
John Carmack

Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types.
Eric S. Raymond

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Compiler Translations

compiler in Dutch is compiler
compiler in German is Compiler, Kompiler
compiler in Portuguese is compilador
compiler in Spanish is recopilador
compiler in Swedish is kompilator

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