Monday, July 13, 2009

What is a compiler?

Written by a student in a introductory Computer
Science course.

This definition of "compiler" must rank as the BEST of
the possible wrong answers..

"A compiler's primary function is to compile, organize
the compilation, and go right back to compiling. It
compiles basically only those things that require to
be compiled, ignoring things that should not be
compiled. The main way a compiler compiles, is to
compile the things to be compiled until the
compilation is complete."