| Noun | 1. | compiling program - (computer science) a program that decodes instructions written in a higher order language and produces an assembly language program computer science, computing - the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures computer program, computer programme, programme, program - (computer science) a sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute; "the program required several hundred lines of code" C compiler - a compiler for programs written in C Fortran compiler - a compiler for programs written in FORTRAN LISP compiler - a compiler for programs written in LISP Pascal compiler - a compiler for programs written in Pascal parser - a computer program that divides code up into functional components; "compilers must parse source code in order to translate it into object code" |