It does much of the software scut work needed to make its processors useful, such as building compilers, debuggers, and drivers.

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Early modern compilers of information feared that without care for its safekeeping, information might run through their fingers like sand, lost forever.

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Compilers are complex pieces of software to begin with, but making ones that can take advantage of these new features is a daunting task.

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Schools also complain that the proliferation of lists, since BusinessWeek launched the first in 1988, has left some staff working two to three days a week gathering information for the compilers.

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Poetry is, admittedly, an insuperable problem for quotation compilers.

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The advent of modern optimizing compilers and many fold enhancements in computing hardware performance have now eliminated the need to use an assembly language in most applications and most applications are now written in higher level languages.

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Universities UK, which represents all UK universities, said it was difficult to compare international education systems - but other more established compilers of world rankings such as Times Higher, QS and Shanghai Jiaotong consistently rated the UK as second behind the United States.

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