3 ms·
No (if the parent really meant ‘compiler compiler’ which, I think, would be what yacc/bison is).
by Koshkin 2y ago
No (if the parent really meant ‘compiler compiler’ which, I think, would be what yacc/bison is).
- anyfoo 2y agoAh, thanks. My brain actually did not see that second "compiler" when reading, now it makes sense.
- downboots 2y agoHow could you tell the difference between missing it and your brain filtering it out?
- anyfoo 2y agoIsn’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 agoyacc calls it's a compiler compiler, but it's a parser compiler.
- anyfoo 2y agoI'd go further and say "parser generator", the generated parser will be compiled by a C compiler after all.