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On Sunday, May 29, 2022 at 4:16:21 AM UTC+2, Roger L Costello wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> There are lexer generators. Flex is a lexer generator.
>
> There are parser generators. Bison is a parser generator.
>
> Are there compiler generators? ...

If you like reading about something which might be practical in a
hundred years: https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/goedelmachine.html
(1st paper in the series: https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0309048)

Some practical examples available today, having some similarity to the above method, are PyPy and GraalVM.

There is also http://www.general-game-playing.de for example.

-atom