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Subject: Re: Right toolf for the job (Was: teaching
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On Jan 4, 2012, at 4:51 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
> Does anybody write compilers in assembly any more? Or
ever will, again?
People write compilers all the time. If you think they don't, you're
seriously out of the loop.
No they don't (depends of course on what you mean by writing compilers) they
write the grammer and get FLEX/LEX and Yacc/BISON to write the compiler for
them, or they write a new back end for GCC...
http://dinosaur.compilertools.net/
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