A computer program that translates high-level language program into machine…

An interpreter is a computer program that translates and executes a high-level language program statement-by-statement. It reads one statement at a time, translates it into machine code, and immediately executes it. This process continues until all statements are processed. A compiler, on the other hand, translates the entire program into machine code before execution. It does not process statements one at a time during execution. A loader is responsible for loading the compiled program into memory, but it does not perform translation. Therefore, the correct answer is the interpreter, as it performs translation statement-by-statement.