In a compiled language, you have an intermediate step, in which you take the source code, it runs through what's called a checker or a compiler or both, and it creates what's called object code.

而在编译语言里，你就会经过一个中间的步骤，在这种语言里输入源码后，先经过过滤器,或者编译器检查后，它会创建一个叫做目标代码的东西。

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So C or the compiler's for C are kind of dumb, by definition of the language years ago, whereby, they only know about what they've already seen.

所以C或者C的编译器是有点愚蠢的，根据多年前这个语言的定义，凭借那个，他们只知道,他们所看到的。

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> What exactly is the difference with this system that we have here of compiling and say another compiler for one like the C++?

>在这个系统上编译,跟在我们这编译有什么不同吗？,也就是说，有没有其他的编译器供C++等语言使用？

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