Describe the steps that transform a program written in a high-level language such as c into question: describe the steps that transform a program written in a high-level language such as c into a representation that is directly executed by a computer processor. compiler: compiler is a computer program that translates a program written in one programming language to another programming language. mainly, a compiler is used to convert a human readable source code into a machine understandable object code. an example would be gnu compiler collection used to convert c source code to machine instructions.