Very minor nit-pick, but assembly language is generally said to be "assembled" into machine code, not "compiled". But since "assembly" and its variant words are

Very minor nit-pick, but assembly language is generally said to be "assembled" into machine code, not "compiled". But since "assembly" and its variant words are relatively little-used in development now, and when they are they often mean something quite different, I can understand the author calling it compilation.