8LANGUAGE PROCESSING
It’s pretty clear that only crazy people would try to write computer programs. That’s always been true, but programming languages at least make the job a lot easier.
This chapter examines how programming languages are implemented. Its aim is to help you develop an understanding of what happens with your code. You’ll also learn how the code you write is transformed into an executable form called machine language.
Assembly Language
We saw a machine language implementation of a program to compute Fibonacci numbers back in Table 4-4 on page 108. As you might imagine, figuring out all the bit combinations for instructions is pretty ...
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