| | Compiler-compiler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Compiler Compilers exist in many flavors, including bottom-up rewrite machine generators (see JBurg) used to tile syntax trees according to a rewrite grammar for code generation, and attribute grammar parser generators (see Antlr that can be used for simultaneous type checking, constant propagation, and more during the parsing stage). |
 | | The first Compiler Compiler to use that name was written by Tony Brooker in 1960 and was used to create compilers for the Atlas computer at the University of Manchester, including the Atlas Autocode compiler. |
 | | However it was rather different from modern compiler compilers, and today would probably be described as being somewhere between a highly customisable generic compiler and an extensible-syntax language. |
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