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Glossary of Terms
- PRC
- The
EXE
of the Palm world. Executable programs for the Palm
end in .PRC
, and are installed using the Palm Desktop Software
that ships with the Palm device.
- ISO/ANSI Forth Standard
- The ISO/ANSI Forth
Standard was released in 1994. As of 1998, it is up for review. From section
1.1, "Purpose":
"The purpose of this Standard is to promote the portability of
Forth programs for use on a wide variety of computing systems, to facilitate
the communication of programs, programming techniques, and ideas among Forth
programmers, and to serve as a basis for the future evolution of the Forth
language."
- native code
- Machine language; binary instructions that can be directly executed by the
CPU (in the case of the Palm, the CPU is a Motorola
MC68328 DragonBall processor, a member of the Motorola
68000 family of microprocessors).
- source code
- The human-readable text of a computer program.
- object code
- The machine-readable, native-code instruction sequences for a specific program.
- interpreter
- Reads commands input as text, and takes action depending upon the commands
received.
- pre-processor
- A component of compilers for certain compiled languages (such as C). In
those languages, as a first step before compilation, the source is passed
through a pre-processor that performs certain text replacements, removes comments,
and/or takes other actions based on specially-coded directives entered as
part of the source.
- compiler
- Reads the human readable text of a program, written in programming
language, and outputs object code.
- optimization
- Additional processing during the compilation process that ensures that generated
object code is as small and fast as possible.
- linker
- Links object code and library code into a single, invokable form. Linking
is one of the final stages of producing an executable program.
- debugger
- A system component that provides tools for the developer to use in finding
and removing bugs from a program.
- assembler
- Reads human-readable instructions that have a one-to-one correspondence
to native-code machine instructions, and produces object code for a specific
CPU.
- word
- In Forth, definitions are known as words.
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