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Is assembly an interpreter?
Assemblers are a third type of translator. The purpose of an assembler is to translate assembly language into object code. Whereas compilers and interpreters generate many machine code instructions for each high-level instruction, assemblers create one machine code instruction for each assembly instruction.
Is assembler an interpreted language?
The main difference between compiler interpreter and assembler is that compiler converts the whole high level language program to machine language at a time while interpreter converts high level language program to machine language line by line and assembler converts assembly language program to machine language.
Which language is compiled and interpreted?
A compiled language is a programming language whose implementations are typically compilers and not interpreters. An interpreted language is a programming language whose implementations execute instructions directly and freely, without previously compiling a program into machine-language instructions.
Is assembler a part of compiler?
Compiler converts the source code written by the programmer to a machine level language. Assembler converts the assembly code into the machine code.
Is assembly language a high-level language?
An assembly language is a type of low-level programming language that is intended to communicate directly with a computer’s hardware. Unlike machine language, which consists of binary and hexadecimal characters, assembly languages are designed to be readable by humans.
What is difference between compiler and interpreter and assembler?
Is assembly language a high level language?
What languages are interpreted?
Examples of common interpreted languages are PHP, Ruby, Python, and JavaScript.
Is PHP compiled or interpreted?
PHP, as is the case with many other languages used for web applications, is an interpreted language. When running an application written in PHP, we usually don’t think what really happens to its code during the execution.
Is MySQL interpreted?
The MySQL command interpreter is commonly used to create databases and tables in web database applications and to test queries. All these statements can be directly entered into the command interpreter and executed. The statements can also be included in server-side PHP scripts, as discussed in later chapters.
What is the difference between assembly language and compiler?
Assembly language maps directly to machine code (zeroes and ones). It’s a mnemonic for humans – because it’s easier to remember simple commands like MOV AL, 61h than trying to write it directly as 10110000 01100001. So, your code is assembled, not compiled, and the program that does it is called an assembler, not a compiler.
What is a compiled language?
A compiled language is a programming language which are generally compiled and not interpreted. It is one where the program, once compiled, is expressed in the instructions of the target machine; this machine code is undecipherable by humans.
How many statements does assembly language have?
Assembly language usually has one statement per machine instruction (1:1), but comments and statements that are assembler directives, macros, and symbolic labels of program and memory locations are often also supported.
How is assembly code translated to machine code?
Each hardware vendor has its own assembly standard, so assembly code is platform-specific (non-portable). Compiled languages (such as C) are translated to assembly first by the compiler, before being converted to machine code (assembled). The compilation process includes the assembling.