It's well-known that employee turnover rates come as a high cost to companies, however very few discuss the true extended costs and the multiple ways that it impacts the business. It's important that successful business not only find the best employees, but keep them engaged as well.
A compiler is a program that translates human-readable source code into computer-executable machine code. To do this successfully, the human-readable code must comply with the syntax rules of whichever programming language it is written in. The compiler is only a program and cannot fix your code for you.
Bootstrapping to a new platform. When developing software for a new platform, or the emulator of a future platform, one uses a cross compiler to compile necessary tools such as the operating system and a native compiler. Use of virtual machines (such as Java's JVM) resolves some of the reasons for which cross compilers were developed.