Database System Concepts
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If you are a native English speaker and you want to learn to speak Chinese, compare and contrast the difference in learning the new language if your brain acted like a compiler as opposed to how it might function if it acted like an interpreter. It turns out this analogy is a very close approximation to the way compilers and interpreters work on computer
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