monic part 5: writing C programs on the calculator

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I've started writing an editor and translator for a subset of the C programming language. I'm not sure what the proper computer science term for the translator is. Given a program, e.g. find the factorial of the positive integer on stack level 1:

Code:


double product=1.0;
double n;

int main(void) {
 n = level1; //pop value on stack level 1 into n
 do {
  product = product*n;
  n--; 
 } while (n>1.0);
}

the translator produces a sequence of codes. When the program is run the codes are fed to a switch statement, which executes the corresponding instruction. Does this make the translator a compiler, or is it an interpreter?