Re: Are there "compiler generators"?

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On 5/29/22 11:14 AM, Thomas Koenig wrote:
> Roughly speaking a)-c) is the front end, d) is the middle end and
> e)-f) is the back end.

According to CoCo/R a "compiler" can be anything that deals with formal
input. A generator of binary programs is only one kind of a compiler,
another one is a pretty printer.

I mention this because IMO there is much more demand for non-programming
language processors (HTML, XML...) than for programming language
compilers. I'd appreciate a word of our esteemed mod about the term
"compiler" in this group.

DoDi
[We chose the name comp.compilers in the 1980s and it's not going to change,
but I've always considered anything related to analysis or translation of computer
languages to be on topic. -John]

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