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.IX Title "INTERCAL::ByteCode 3pm"
.TH INTERCAL::ByteCode 3pm "2023-05-18" "perl v5.36.0" "User Contributed Perl Documentation"
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Language::INTERCAL::Bytecode \- intermediate language
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
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The CLC-INTERCAL compiler works by producing bytecode from the
program source; this bytecode can be interpreted to execute the
program immediately; alternatively, a backend can produce something
else from the bytecode, for example C or Perl source code which can
then be compiled to your computer's native object format.
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The compiler itself is just some more bytecode. Thus, to produce the
compiler you need a compiler compiler, and to produce that you need
a compiler compiler compiler; to produce the latter you would need
a compiler compiler compiler compiler, and so on to infinity. To
simplify the programmer's life (eh?), the compiler compiler is able
to compile itself, and is therefore identical to the compiler compiler
compiler (etcetera).
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The programmer can start the process because a pre-compiled compiler
compiler, in the form of bytecode, is provided with the CLC-INTERCAL
distribution; this compiler compiler then is able to compile all
other compilers, as well as to rebuild itself if need be.
.PP
See the online manual or the \s-1HTML\s0 documentation included with the
distribution for more information about this.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.IX Header "SEE ALSO"
A qualified psychiatrist
.SH "AUTHOR"
.IX Header "AUTHOR"
Claudio Calvelli \- intercal (whirlpool) sdf.lonestar.org
(Please include the word \s-1INTERLEAVING\s0 in the subject when emailing that
address, or the email may be ignored)