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An '''interpreter''' is a program which takes a program in the [[source code]] for a particular [[programming language]], and examines it line by line, to work out what each line of the program is doing. For each line, instead of converting it to [[object code]] to perform the action specified, for execution later (as a [[compiler]]) would do), the interpreter takes the action indicated in that line there and then.

For example, the line 'a = b + c' would result in a compiler emitting a sequence of load, add and store [[instruction]]s to achieve that; an interpreter would locate its current copy of the data items 'b' and 'c', add them together, and store the result in its copy of 'c'.

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 An '''interpreter''' is a program which takes a program in the [[source code]] for a particular [[programming language]], and examines it line by line, to work out what each line of the program is doing. For each line, instead of converting it to [[object code]] to perform the action specified, for execution later (as a [[compiler]]) would do), the interpreter takes the action indicated in that line there and then.
 For example, the line 'a = b + c' would result in a compiler emitting a sequence of load, add and store [[instruction]]s to achieve that; an interpreter would locate its current copy of the data items 'b' and 'c', add them together, and store the result in its copy of 'c'.
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