Compilers
- defn: a program that converts high-level language into lower-level language(s) for execution by a computing device
- Modestly Complex
- Richard Stallman—GCC
- Don Knuth—The Art of Computer Programming
PostScript
- Page description language
- Adobe—1984
- Desktop publishing
MolScript
- Compiler
- Input—script specifying what to draw and how
- Output—PostScript language drawing commands