这种表示法经常用于计算机科学，特别是编译器设计方面。

This notation is frequently used in computer science, especially in compiler design.

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一个计算机科学家可能不会编制他自己的集成电路，也可能不会写自己的编译器和操作系统。

A computer scientist may not fabricate her own ICs, and may not write her own compiler and operating system.

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程序通常都由高级语言编写，之后由编译器转换为适合特定计算机系统的机器语言，或者是能被翻译器运行的中间语言。

A compiler into the machine language of a specific computer system or into an.

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So those are in fact the patterns of zeroes and ones, the bytes that would have been outputted had I hello c remembered to download the compiler to this computer and run it on that little hello.c file.

这些都是0和1的模式，如果我记得下载编译器到计算机上的话,我们就能运行下这个,然后看看输出的字节。

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