Re: Canonical Comments
Roedy Green wrote:
On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:32:25 -0400, Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> wrote,
quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :
It doesn't compile them, it assembles them.
http://cplus.about.com/od/glossary/g/gloscompiled.htm
A compiler is a computer program that transforms human readable source
code of another computer program into the machine readable code that a
CPU can execute.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/assembler
An assembler is a computer program that converts a set of low-level
symbolic data into machine language
Assembler has a very specific meaning in IT.
But assembles does follow that meaning.
And not even assembler always has this meaning.
<quote>
EE.2.10.3Application Assembler
The Application Assembler takes a set of components developed by
Application Component Providers and assembles them into a complete Java
EE application delivered in the form of an Enterprise Archive (.ear)
file. The Application Assembler will generally use GUI tools provided by
either a Platform Provider or Tool Provider. The Application Assembler
is responsible for providing assembly instructions describing external
dependencies of the application that the Deployer must resolve in the
deployment process.
</quote>
It is left as an exercise to figure out where the quote is from.
Arne