Yet-another-compiler-compiler

yet another compiler compiler
tool, language
(yacc) the lalr p-rs-r generator found on most unix systems. also, the language used to describe the syntax of another language to yacc (the program).
implementations: ayacc, yay, perln-byacc,
sasl-yacc – “yacc in sasl – an exercise in functional programming”, simon peyton-jones, software prac & exp 15:807-820 (1985). mentions also a bcpl implementation.
yacc++ – 1990. an object-oriented rewrite of yacc, supports regular expressions, produces an lr1 grammar p-rs-r.
[“yacc meets c++”, s.c. johnson, usenix spring ’88 conf].
chris clark, compiler resources inc, +1 (508) 435-5016.
mlyacc – implementation and output in sml/nj. (ftp:research.att.com/dist/ml/75.tools.tar.z).
a version, by david poole at montana university has been retargeted to turbo pascal.
(ftp://iecc.com/pub/file/lyprg.zip).
see also bison, yet another, yet another yacc.
unix manual page: yacc(1).
[“yacc – yet another compiler compiler”, s.c. johnson, cs tr 32, bell labs (jul 1975)].
[was there ever an “acc” – “another compiler compiler”? if so, what was the first compiler compiler called?]
(2000-11-15)