Re: Is Assembler Language essential in compiler construction?

"Hans Aberg" <haberg_20080406@math.su.se> wrote in message
> marco.m.petersen@gmail.com wrote:
>> I mean, if you wrote a program that converts code from BASIC to C++
>> then calls another compiler to do the compilation process, wouldn't
>> that be considered as a compiler?
>
> Yes, formally a compiler just translates one computer language into
> another. For example, an assembler translates into the machine code
> language.


I would say that is simply translation and not compilation because there is
no intermediate representation. The IR (and the creation of it via
lex/parse/semantic analysis before code generation) is what I think
distinguishes compilers from interpreters and translators.


Tony

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