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Thank you for digging this up. I agree about "translator". They were called "compilers" because the first ones were little more than linkers.
by kragen 1y ago
Thank you for digging this up. I agree about "translator". They were called "compilers" because the first ones were little more than linkers.
- khaledh 1y agoIndeed. I believe the first use of the word compiler (by Hopper and her team) was to describe "compiling" a bunch of existing machine code subroutines into a whole program, rather than translating one language into another.