Writing a compiler seems like a much harder problem than an interpreter. If that is so, why was the first compiler written six years before the first interpreter?

Learn the advantages of using a compiler instead of an interpreter for your computer science code, and how they affect performance, portability, and security.

The compiler is designed to accept very simple expressions in standard infix notation and generate instructions that an interpreter can evaluate in postfix form using a stack, hence the reference to ...

Abstract The external STG interpreter is a from scratch implementation of the STG machine in Haskell. Currently it supports almost all GHC primops and RTS features. It can run real world Haskell ...

Background: Compilers tend to produce cryptic and uninformative error messages, leaving programmers confused and requiring them to spend precious time to resolv ...