Interpreter (compu
Interpreter (computing)
In computer science, an interpreter is a computer program that directly executes, i.e. performs, instructions written in a programming or scripting language, without previously compiling them into a machine language program. An interpreter generally uses one of the following strategies for program execution:
- parse the source code and perform its behavior directly
- translate source code into some efficient intermediate representation and immediately execute this
- explicitly execute stored precompiled code[1] made by a compiler which is part of the interpreter system
