Information and Communication Technology

3.1.4 Language Translators

Computers can understand instructions only when they are written in their own language called the machine language . Therefore, a programme written in any other language should be translated into machine language. Special programmes called language processors are available to do this job.

These special programmes accept the user programmes and check each statement and, if it is grammatically correct, produce a corresponding set of machine code instructions. Language processors are also known as translators. There are three forms of translators:

• Compilers
• Interpreters
• Assemblers