Rudy Velthuis (TeamB) wrote:

> > 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.

OK, I was wrong about Perl and Ruby. Apparently, these use Yacc or
something very similar. Python doesn't use one, AFAICT. Pascal, C and
C++ certainly don't.


I know that the Free Pascal Compiler parser started out as a TP YACC
generated file, but I don't think it still is.


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