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Re: First Program with Python!

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On 15/02/2016 16:46, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
> On 2016-02-09, anitagoyal571@gmail.com <anitagoyal571@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Interpreter is a program that converts the high-level program we write
>> into low-level program that the computer understands.
>
> Complete nonsense. That is a compiler.
>
> An interpreter is a program which reads another another program,
> translating it into execution pathways through existing blocks of code
> which make the interpreter.
>
> The interpreter looks at the code and using its existing hard-coded
> logic (not any newly generated code) performs whatever meaning that code
> indicates.

That sounds sensible but it could also apply to a microprogrammed 
processor executing machine code.

And you could take what is thought of as conventionally compiled code 
and run it via an interpreter (or emulator) for that code on any hardware.

If there is any translation involved at all from source code to some 
other, usually less human-readable format, then both compilers and 
interpreters can do that.

Usually a compiler generates native code directly, an interpreter some 
made-up code that has to be executed with a special program. But there 
is plenty of overlap.


-- 
Bartc

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First Program with Python! anitagoyal571@gmail.com - 2016-02-09 06:11 -0800
  Re: First Program with Python! Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-02-09 14:30 +0000
    Re: First Program with Python! Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-02-09 14:35 +0000
      Re: First Program with Python! Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-02-09 19:06 +0000
        Re: First Program with Python! Öö Tiib <ootiib@hot.ee> - 2016-02-09 16:55 -0800
          Re: First Program with Python! Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-02-10 09:20 +0000
          Re: First Program with Python! Kaz Kylheku <330-706-9395@kylheku.com> - 2016-02-15 16:49 +0000
    Re: First Program with Python! Öö Tiib <ootiib@hot.ee> - 2016-02-09 16:32 -0800
      Re: First Program with Python! BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-02-10 14:07 +0000
        Re: First Program with Python! David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2016-02-10 16:24 +0100
          Re: First Program with Python! BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-02-10 16:55 +0000
            Re: First Program with Python! David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2016-02-11 00:18 +0100
              Re: First Program with Python! BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-02-11 00:07 +0000
          Re: First Program with Python! Kaz Kylheku <330-706-9395@kylheku.com> - 2016-02-15 16:58 +0000
        Re: First Program with Python! Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-02-10 21:51 +0000
          Re: First Program with Python! BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-02-11 00:15 +0000
  Re: First Program with Python! Kaz Kylheku <330-706-9395@kylheku.com> - 2016-02-15 16:46 +0000
    Re: First Program with Python! BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-02-15 17:31 +0000
      Re: First Program with Python! Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-02-15 20:16 +0000
        Re: First Program with Python! BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-02-15 22:45 +0000
          Re: First Program with Python! Kaz Kylheku <330-706-9395@kylheku.com> - 2016-02-16 03:40 +0000

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