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Compile

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Compiling just means translating one thing to another. In software, it’s usually about converting one programming language to another. Believe it or not, your operating system can’t really understand most of the programming languages that developers write code in. Compilers are software programs that convert high level, almost human readable languages like Python and JavaScript into lower level, faster, system-like languages like Assembly that a computer can actually understand.

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