The word 'compiler' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to an individual or a program that translates source code written in one programming language into another language. For example, "My computer runs a compiler that converts JavaScript code into HTML code."
A compiler (compilator) combines the texts of other authors without adding any new material to the text, whereas a commentator "writes both others' work and his own, but with others' work in the principal place, adding his own for purposes of explanation".
The compiler of the Harry the Dog word search in the Sunday Telegraph (proprietor: Rupert Murdoch), who included the phrase "Murdoch is evil" backwards.
That the suggestion came from the man himself – on the back of his overtaking Sir Donald Bradman as Australia's greatest compiler of first-class runs with his second century of the summer – confirms Langer's reputation as the most patriotic Australian since Chips Rafferty.
It was positive ratings from finalists that helped to drive Coventry University's rise up the rankings, according to the compiler of the tables Matt Hiely-Rayner: "It is particularly in the questions that relate to assessment and feedback that Coventry does well.
Related: University guide Q&A: put your questions to the compiler Cardiff University leapt to the top of the dentistry rankings, having been 11th place last summer.
Thomson Financial, a data compiler, says that upgrades to corporate-earnings forecasts are still exceeding downgrades in every big stockmarket except Britain's, which hardly indicates pessimism about the world economy.
Boswell, a laird from Scotland, an advocate with political aspirations, 30 years younger than Johnson, tackled the eminent literary figure of the day, the editor of Shakespeare, compiler of a dictionary, the critic and essayist of magisterial intellect.
As Noah Webster, the compiler of the first American dictionary, put it: "as an independent nation, our honor [sic] requires us to have a system of our own, in language as well as government".
According to the main compiler of forest data, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation, about 4 billion hectares (10 billion acres) of forest remain, covering 31% of the Earth's land surface.
As the original designer of the language and the person who implemented its first compiler and "virtual machine", Mr Gosling is recognised the world over as the father of the Java programming language.Energy and environmentRinaldo Rinolfi, executive vice-president, Fiat Research, Turin.
This program is then fed into a second piece of software called a compiler, which translates it into a sequence of machine instructions for a specific kind of microprocessor, such as Intel's x86 family, which can then run the original program.So far, so good.
