Compilercompiler

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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  Compiler-Compiler
       
          An early {compiler generator} for the {Atlas}, with its own
          distinctive input language.
       
          ["The Compiler-Compiler", R.A. Brooker et al, Ann Rev


          Automatic Programming 3:229-275, Pergamon 1963].
       
          (1994-10-24)
       
       

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  compiler-compiler
       
          A utility to generate the {source code} of a {parser},
          {interpreter} or {compiler} from an annotated language
          description (usually in {BNF}).  Most so called
          compiler-compilers are really just {parser generator}s.
       
          Examples are {Bison}, {Eli}, {FSL}, {META 5}, {MUG2},
          {Parsley}, {Pre-cc}, {Yacc}.
       
          (1995-01-23)