Mattias Andersson wrote:
> > I meant: give me examples of existing, widely used compilers that > > were generated with the aid of a compiler generator. > > If you would have read any literature on "compiler construction", you > would have learned how to use a compiler generator and most probably > not how to write it by hand.
Not what I asked. Anyway, I only read the Dragon Book.
> My guess would be that the vast majority of compilers are dependent on > a compiler generator
My guess would be that the mainstream ones, like C, C++, C#, Java, Pascal, Python, Ruby, Perl, etc. are not. I could be wrong, though.
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