Chapter 1.3. IL Intermediate Language
IN THIS CHAPTER
In the current day and age of software development, developers use high-level languages such as C++, Visual Basic, or Java to implement applications and components. I personally don't know any working binary developers and few assembly language programmers.
So why is IL, Intermediate Language, so important to .NET? To answer this question requires a brief tour of compiler theory 101. The basic task of a compiler is to transform readable source code into native executable code for a given platform. The compilation process includes several phases, which include but are not limited to lexical scanning, parsing, abstract syntax ...
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