Eli5: If a compiler is a program that converts your code into binary form for the computer, unless my understanding is incorrect and it isn’t just a program, wouldn’t the compiler also need a compiler to run it since how do you run a program without a compiler?
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This is something I couldn’t grasp until the very end of my first computer science class more than two decades ago. It’s a great question. The answer is no, not every program needs to be compiled.
The first programs and later the first compiler was created by programmers working directly with machine code.
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