FIT 100
© Copyright 1999-2000
University of Washington
Practical Universality
vThere seem to be
many ways in which computers are different …
oCarburetor computer,
laptop computer, cell-phone computer
oSoftware for the Mac
doesn’t work on a PC and vice versa
;Though
computers mostly have the same instructions, their encoding in binary numbers
is different …
vA compiler is a
translator from a programming language to the machine language of a
computer
Application written in VB
VB-to-C2
Compiler
VB-to-C1
Compiler
Computer C2
Computer C1