A program called an assembler is then used to convert from the assembly language ... into machine code. Higher level languages like C or C++ are converted into machine code using a compiler.

I’ve talked about it before, but if you don’t want to read the whole post about it, it uses some simple tricks to convert standard-looking assembly language formats into C code that is then ...

Compilers often translate source code for a high-level language, such as C++ ... machine) byte code. Doctors Edsger Dijkstra and Jaap Zonneveld wrote the first ALGOL 60 compiler in X1 assembly ...