F. Compilation Basics
Warning!
Entire books have been written on this topic. Rather that attempt to cover the content of a book in a few pages, this primer hopes to introduce the material and provide the absolute least amount of knowledge needed to get started with Django Unleashed. I recommend using a full reference when programming or if any of this information proves to be unclear.
The process of compilation is far outside the scope of this book. However, when dealing custom template tags—Chapter 27: Building Custom Template Tags—it becomes useful to understand the big picture of compilers.
The goal of a compiler is to take one programming language and convert it into another (typically machine code). In some ways, this is a form of translation: ...
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