Complex words diversify our lives and help solve crossword puzzles. This phrase can be interpreted in different ways. By the way, what is "interpret"? Can you find a synonym for this term? What is an interpreter language? Is there such a profession? Let's try to figure it out.
Dictionaries
As always in the case of interpreting difficult words, it is best to consult dictionaries and look for the term "interpret" there. The meaning of the word is to interpret, explain, make clear.
This concept comes from the Latin interpretatio, which means "clarification". Dictionaries give us the following interpretations of this term:
- Interpretable is a method or way of translating complex symbolic content into simple literary text.
- A narrower meaning is used by the humanities. Here "interpret" means to interpret the proposed texts in terms of semantics and epistemology.
- In the philosophical dictionary, this definition changes slightly. Here the meaning of the word "interpretable" isexplaining the processes of existence of the laws of nature based on their understanding by the human mind.
Let's dwell on these definitions in more detail.
Humanities
Linguists interpret the meaning of the term "interpretation" as one of the methods of working with sign systems. Any letter, stone tablet, pattern on a clay shard is covered with signs of the past, which modern science is trying to explain. After all, any text or pattern carries a lot of symbols and implied meanings. An interpretable text means understandable, because interpreting ancient writings is far from the same as translating them. The difference is very noticeable - as between machine translation from a foreign language and professional. It is not enough to read the ancient text, you need to understand what the ancients had in mind when they drew these strange signs. No wonder many scientists are inclined to believe that writing arose at the intersection of science and art.
The ambiguity of words written many centuries ago may have long been lost to modern researchers. We interpret incomprehensible ambiguity in our own way. What does this mean for understanding ancient languages? A modern idea of the life of people who lived long before us. After all, modern life is also rich in allegories and inconsistencies that are understandable to a native speaker, but their meaning is lost in translation. What can we say if the text under study was written long before our birth. With the help of interpretations, we plunge into the world of the ancients and try to try on ideas about being,long before us.
Religion
The need to explain letters as carriers of special, implicit knowledge is most evident in religion. Each meaning or word acquired its own symbol, was repeatedly interpreted and explained. Many interpretations of well-known events were interpreted contrary to the generally accepted ones. A classic example of such interpretations in Christianity are various apocrypha not included in canonical texts, such as the Gospel of Thomas or the Protoevangelium of James.
Exact sciences
In mathematics and other exact sciences, some interpretation is always implied. Any mathematical theory is based on things that from the very beginning do not need explanations or proofs. The simplest example of such a logical structure is Euclidean geometry, which bases its entire base of theorems on several axioms. Each next theorem builds on the previous one. Such a ladder clearly shows the interpretation of theoretical constructions inherent in modern science in general. The simplicity of discoveries of the late Renaissance is a thing of the past - since the 19th century, any mathematical discovery began with some kind of assumption that did not require proof. This is how the geometry of Lobachevsky and Riemann arose. Now interpretation is the principle of applied mathematics, which, acting on the agreed principles, is able to solve problems of a very high order.
Science
By the beginning of the New Age, a critical mass had accumulated in the baggage of mankindfacts and explanations that required classification and interpretation. Therefore, the principle of "set the experiment and look for the cause of the phenomenon" by that time had become a thing of the past. In the natural sciences, more and more complex experiments were carried out on the basis of the theory put forward. The meaning of the word "interpret" has become a little different - to explain the result obtained on the basis of the theory. Any logical conclusion was verified by observations and experiments. The interpretation of the results of these experiments has extended the life of some theories or destroyed others to the ground.
Programming
Programming as a science is at the intersection of mathematics and linguistics. Programmers use mathematical symbols, converting them into programs using the laws of linguistics. It is not for nothing that all the sign systems used in compiling programs are called languages - when typing a program, various linguistic constructions known from living languages, syntax rules, etc. are used.
A programming language is needed in order to carry out certain actions with data. These actions must be performed by the "brain" of the computer - its processor. But the whole difficulty lies in the fact that the processor understands only its own, rather limited set of instructions. In order for the processor to understand what it needs to do, compilers and interpreters have been developed.
Compilers
A compiler is a program that turns a programmer's text into a set of machine instructions. As the conversion proceeds, such a compiler program points out errors (syntactic,For example). Therefore, the directly executable file will no longer have errors. The most common compiled languages are Pascal, Assembler, Delphi, C, C++.
Interpreters
There are also special languages, programming in which we turn not to the processor, but to the intermediary language, the interpreter language. The interpreter program performs line-by-line analysis of the program as it arrives at the input of the program. The result is a set of characters that the processor can understand and execute. In a programmer's environment, an interpreter is a virtual machine.
The process goes like this: the original program is converted into some conditional code, a set of commands understandable to the interpreter program. For example, code written in C (C-sharp) turns into an Intermediate Language, a language understandable for the Net Framework environment.
Sometimes an interpreted language allows a program to run without intermediaries, for example, a JavaScript script is executed directly by the browser. In this case, when an error is detected, the program has no choice but to interrupt the execution of the command and present the error to the programmer. The interpreted programming language is PHP, JavaScript, C.
Results
Let's get back to our interpreters. In modern colloquial speech, the word "interpretable" also occurs. This concept is interpreted as "become clear for understanding". It is in this sense that the word is used in everyday communication. There was even a profession of "interpreter". This is an engineer who analyzes the entire array of data necessary to control mining. Such a varied use of a well-known word may lead to the emergence of other meanings of the word "interpreter". But the future will show how far the new values will be from the initial ones.
