This was done by Shimomura that was kind of the first step in this process of having it become such a useful tool.

这个工作是由Shimomura完成的,这是它成为一个有用的,工具的过程中的第一步。

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So you have to somehow convert the source code, the C code into 0s and 1s and for that process there exist this tool called a compiler that someone else wrote that takes this stuff as input and produces this stuff as output.

所以你必须把源代码，即C语言代码转换成二进制文件,这个过程就需要我们提到的编译器了,它是由别人编写的一个软件，以这些代码作为输入,将会产生的输出。

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