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> if you want more of a challenge try a compiler compiler that can compile itself... :) Is that not what OP did?

• Koshkin 2y ago
  No (if the parent really meant ‘compiler compiler’ which, I think, would be what yacc/bison is).
  • anyfoo 2y ago
    Ah, thanks. My brain actually did not see that second "compiler" when reading, now it makes sense.
    • downboots 2y ago
      How could you tell the difference between missing it and your brain filtering it out?
      • anyfoo 2y ago
        Isn’t that the same now? By the way, I dislike the term “compiler compiler”, because that’s not really what it does. I like “parser generator” for tax/bison, and “lexer generator” for flex.
  • ModernMech 2y ago
    yacc calls it's a compiler compiler, but it's a parser compiler.
    • anyfoo 2y ago
      I'd go further and say "parser generator", the generated parser will be compiled by a C compiler after all.