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Sorry that's not my understanding of the history - early compilers were more like what we'd call today template compilers - linking blocks of pre-defined machin
by chrisseaton 4y ago
Sorry that's not my understanding of the history - early compilers were more like what we'd call today template compilers - linking blocks of pre-defined machine code together.
- serhart 4y agoYes, that is very much what they were. However, they used the term compiler in very much the same way it's used today. It didn't mean something different. The concept of the "compiler" was to translate mathematical symbols (or predefined machine code representing that math) and later English like words into programs a machine could execute.