it is necessary to retranslate the user's program deck every time it is run.
it is very difficult to handle multiple segments, especially if the source programs are in different languages, and to produce orderly modular programs.
a portion of memory is wasted because the core occupied by the assembler is unavailable to the object program.
consists of a full or partial list of the token's as they appear in the program. Created by Lexical analysis and used for syntax analysis and interpretation
a permanent table of decision rules in the form of patterns for matching with the uniform symbol table to discover syntactic structure
a permanent table which lists all key words and special symbols of the language in symbolic form
EXAMIANS