Servicing Personal Computers, 3rd Edition

24 Servicing

Personal

Computers

One important feature of a high-level language is its syntax; i.e. the accepted rules which

govern the formation of statements. These have to be learnt at the outset if the user is to

produce programs which are syntactically correct and acceptable to the computer. The

computer uses a compiler to translate programs in high-level language into machine-code

instructions. Obviously, such a compiler must be microprocessor-specific. Usually the

compiler is resident in ROM but, on some machines, it must be fed in from tape or disk before

high-level programming can commence.

A complete BASIC program to input two numbers ...