Writing a compilers compiler in APL

Authors:
Enrique Alfonseca
Affiliations:
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Espana
Venue:
APL '98 Proceedings of the APL98 conference on Array processing language
Year:
1998

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Abstract

This paper describes the special capabilities of APL2 for the construction of compilers and translator writing systems (TWS). To that purpose, a TWS has been written in APL2, which takes as input a complete description of a language including an attribute grammar, in extended Backus normal form, and the semantic function associated to each rule of the grammar, written in APL2. The output of the TWS is a compiler, generated directly inside the workspace and ready to compile source code written in the provided language.