Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!news.misty.com!news.iecc.com!.POSTED.news.iecc.com!nerds-end From: Hans-Peter Diettrich Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: Re: Are there "compiler generators"? Date: Mon, 30 May 2022 14:53:59 +0200 Organization: Compilers Central Lines: 17 Sender: news@iecc.com Approved: comp.compilers@iecc.com Message-ID: <22-05-063@comp.compilers> References: <22-05-054@comp.compilers> <22-05-058@comp.compilers> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: gal.iecc.com; posting-host="news.iecc.com:2001:470:1f07:1126:0:676f:7373:6970"; logging-data="71936"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@iecc.com" Keywords: tools, comment Posted-Date: 30 May 2022 14:49:42 EDT X-submission-address: compilers@iecc.com X-moderator-address: compilers-request@iecc.com X-FAQ-and-archives: http://compilers.iecc.com In-Reply-To: <22-05-058@comp.compilers> Xref: csiph.com comp.compilers:3035 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]