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What compiler do and its purpose?
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Wikipedia provides a good explanation for that:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compiler[^]
A small quote of the first sentences, which explains it in short:
A compiler is a computer program (or set of programs) that transforms source code written in a programming language (the source language) into another computer language (the target language, often having a binary form known as object code). The most common reason for converting a source code is to create an executable program.
 
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Compilers convert high level programming languages ( the language in which you write the code) into low level languages.
 
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