Differentiate between compiler and interpreter?

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Differentiate between compiler and interpreter?..

Answer / jo

Compiler compiles the whole code and generates the error at
the end whereas interpreter compiles the code line by line
and generates the error immediately.

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Differentiate between compiler and interpreter?..

Answer / somenath

compiler is a program that translates code of a programming
language in machine code. it is a special program that
processes statements written in a particular programming
language ang converts them into machine language, a "binary
program" or "code", that a computer processor uses while
interpreters translate code one line a time, executing each
line as it is "translated" much the way a foreign language
interpreter would translate a book, y translating one line
it a time. interpreters do generate bnary code, but that
code is never compiled into one program entity.so tht is
very help full to computer programing language.

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Differentiate between compiler and interpreter?..

Answer / hikaru lee

compiler is a program that translates code of a programming
language in machine code. it is a special program that
processes statements written in a particular programming
language ang converts them into machine language, a "binary
program" or "code", that a computer processor uses while
interpreters translate code one line a time, executing each
line as it is "translated" much the way a foreign language
interpreter would translate a book, y translating one line
it a time. interpreters do generate bnary code, but that
code is never compiled into one program entity.

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Differentiate between compiler and interpreter?..

Answer / bhakti thakre

Hi All.
I think compiler do the compilation of the program
completely and then give error. But interpreter compiles the
whole code line by line.

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