Compilers often translate source code for a high-level language, such as C++ ... virtual machine) byte code. Doctors Edsger Dijkstra and Jaap Zonneveld wrote the first ALGOL 60 compiler in ...

[Dr. Mortal Wombat] took a different approach. The oscar64 compiler takes C source code and compiles it to a virtual machine code or native machine code for cases where performance might be important.