An engineering team is developing the control system for an autonomous drone. They are deciding whether to program the core flight-stabilisation and real-time navigation algorithms using a compiled language or an interpreted language.
Compare the use of a compiler with the use of an interpreter to translate and execute high-level code in this embedded context.
41 exam-style questions on Edexcel GCSE Computer Science Programming languages, covering Low-level and high-level languages and Interpreters versus compilers. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.