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> Are there compiler generators?

Our esteemed moderator no doubt remembers PQCC
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PQCC) the Production-Quality-Compiler
Compiler back in the 80s.

Our idea of a production-quality compiler has evolved since then, both in
language semantics and in code quality