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Glossary of terms. (cont'd)
- COMPILE (cont'd)
- of the overall logic structure of the program, or generating more than one machine in struction for each symbolic statement, or both, as well as per forming the function of an assembler.
- COMPILER
- A computer program that is used to change a high-level programming language into machine language. It is similar to an assembler.
- COMPUTER
- A data processor that can perform substantial computation, including numerous arithmetic or logic operations, without intervention by a human operator during the run.
- DEBUGGING
- The process of detecting and removing the errors in a computer program or a set of programs. Typically, errors are detected by trying to run a program with a series of transactions designed to test the main portions of the program, and observing the correctness of results.
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