Invited papers: History of writing compilers

Authors:
D. E. Knuth
Affiliations:
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Venue:
ACM '62 Proceedings of the 1962 ACM national conference on Digest of technical papers
Year:
1962

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Control Flow Aspects of Semantics-Directed Compiling

ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
Translator writing systems

Communications of the ACM
Control flow aspects of semantics directed compiling (Summary)

SIGPLAN '82 Proceedings of the 1982 SIGPLAN symposium on Compiler construction

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Abstract

THIS PAPER will discuss the evolution of techniques used in writing compilers, from IT and FORTRAN to the present day. Five years ago it was very difficult to explain the internal mechanisms of a compiler, since the various phases of translation were jumbled together into a huge, sprawling algorithm. The passing of time has shown how to distinguish the various components of this process, revealing a basic simplicity.