把一个程序的全部或部分（它们以某种程序设计语言来表达）转换为另一种程序设计语言或适合执行的其它表示形式。

To transform all or part of a program expressed in one programming language into another programming language or into some other representation suitable for execution.

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Zuse也因设计plankalkul(计算计划)而被人纪念，plankalkul是早期设计的一种程序设计语言，虽然因工程效用而从未实现。

Zuse is also remembered for devising plankalkul (calculation plan), an early programming language designed, although never implemented, for engineering purposes.

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程序员不是使用像英语一样的人类语言告诉计算机做什么，而是通过一种特殊明确，被称之为程序设计语言。

Programmers tell computers what to do-not in a human language like English but in special unambiguous languages called programming languages.

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