What is the difference between interpreter and software?
interpreter | software |
One who listens to a speaker in one language and relates that utterance to the audience in a different language. Contrasted with translator.
(figuratively) One who explains something, such as an art exhibit.
(computing) A program which executes another program written in a programming language other than machine code.
(computing) Encoded computer instructions, usually modifiable (unless stored in some form of unalterable memory such as ROM). Compare hardware.
* 1958 , John W. Tukey, "The Teaching of Concrete Mathematics" in The American Mathematical Monthly , vol. 65, no. 1 (Jan. 1958), pp 1-9:
* 1995 , Paul Niquette, Softword: Provenance for the Word ‘Software’ :
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In computing terms the difference between interpreter and software
is that interpreter is a program which executes another program written in a programming language other than machine code while software is encoded computer instructions, usually modifiable (unless stored in some form of unalterable memory such as ROM). Compare hardware.As nouns the difference between interpreter and software
is that interpreter is one who listens to a speaker in one language and relates that utterance to the audience in a different language. Contrasted with translator while software is encoded computer instructions, usually modifiable (unless stored in some form of unalterable memory such as ROM). Compare hardware.interpreter
English
(wikipedia interpreter)Noun
(en noun)- A Japanese man who is tried before a German court is assisted by an interpreter in making oral statements.
- Programs written in the BASIC language are usually run through an interpreter , though some can be compiled.
Derived terms
* terp * parts interpreterCoordinate terms
* (in computing): compilerAnagrams
* ----software
English
Noun
(-)- The "software " comprising the carefully planned interpretive routines, compilers, and other aspects of automative programming are at least as important to the modern electronic calculator as its "hardware" of tubes, transistors, wires, tapes and the like.
- As originally conceived, the word "software " was merely an obvious way to distinguish a program from the computer itself. A program comprised sequences of changeable instructions each having the power to command the behavior of the permanently crafted machinery, the "hardware."