BleepingComputer.com: HOW compiler works

we all do prog. in a high level language such as c++, C#....each have their own compiler...but how do these compilers compile something written in ABCD to 0 & 1..... and in what these compilers are made? and if we go further in depth then do compilers also need compilers?

from compilers 1 more question arises... that if c is said to be mother language.... and other languages are based on it... then on what C is based...or ultimately which is the first high level language?

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That depends on how you define 'high level'. I would argue that since binary is the language of computers, then assembly would be the first higher level language.

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Says who?

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Every single character can be represented by a series of binary numbers. the compiler reads in the code and then converts it. Basically.

Maybe you should start your research here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_language

You should buy and read the Dragon book :
Amazon.com: Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools (9780201100884): Alfred V. Aho, Ravi Sethi, Jeffrey D. Ullman: Books
http://www.amazon.com/Compilers-Principles-Techniques-Alfred-Aho/dp/0201100886

This post has been edited by Minh Triet Pham Tran: 07 January 2012 - 05:13 PM

In short the compiler checks your system to see what type it is. It then converts the source code into the assembly language for your processor's architecture. That assembly code is then converted directly to binary and the computer reads it.

(Converting from high-level language to assembly isn't direct. It's more of a "If he wrote THIS, then we can do the same thing in assembly by using THIS THAT and THE OTHER. The conversion from assembly to binary, however, is directly 1-to-1, every command in assembly is converted to a particular binary number.)

ayush, on 29 November 2010 - 08:01 PM, said:

The most incredible book to put it all in an easy to understand format is The Elements of Computing Systems ISBN 026214087X

It will make you a better programmer in a very natural way no matter what level you are at.

James

ayush, on 29 November 2010 - 08:01 PM, said:

C is not the mother language. C was developed in the early 70's, and is based on the B programming language.

Early programming languages like COBOL, FORTRAN and Lisp were developed in the late 50's.

BASIC was developed in the early 60's.