1.2.2 Application Generation

Any program, routine or procedures that can be run on a computer system

An application that has a very specific task to carry out

Code that is available to everyone and can be redistributed and modified

Code owned by an organisation with a licence to protect it from copyright infringement

Original code typed by the programmer in their native language

A program that translates a program written in assembly language into machine code

Translates and executes a program one statement line at a time

Translates high level language source code into machine code

Converts assembly language source code into machine code

The translation process that produces an equivalent program in a low-level language

Removes any whitespace and comments. Then replaces keywords with tokens

Tokens are checked against the rules of the language

The stage in machine code that produces a machine-code program that is equivalent to the source program

The stage of compilation that ensures that the executable program is optimised at least as much as the compiler can predict

Software tool that allows already compiled object code files or modules to be combined with the compiled program

A utility that loads machine code from an executable file in secondary storage into main memory, so it can run

A collection of compiled procedures that can be called upon by other software applications