1.5 TO RUN A PROGRAM
Program is a set of instructions written for the computer to execute. Programming is the process of writing, testing, debugging and maintaining the source code of computer programs. A programming language like C++ is called higher level language. The program written using it is called source code. Many times we use word code for program. Similarly writing a program is termed as coding.
The compiler is a program which converts this source code into machine code. In windows operating system, machine code is in the form of an exe file. Such file can be run on the computer directly (irrespective of source code). The process of compilation can be in many passes. A pre-processor is a program which looks at (processes) the source ...
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