The Elegant Compiler Generator System

@inproceedings{Augusteijn1990TheEC,
  title={The Elegant Compiler Generator System},
  author={Lex Augusteijn},
  booktitle={Attribute Grammars and their Applications},
  year={1990}
}
  • L. Augusteijn
  • Published in
    Attribute Grammars and their…
     1 September 1990
  • Computer Science
At the Philips Research Laboratories Eindhoven a compiler generator system, called Elegant, has been developed. This system offers the ability to specify a compiler by means of an attribute grammar (AG). This AG is allowed to be pseudo circular. A pseudo circular attribute grammar is a powerful formalism, including the class of non-circular AG's, which allows the structure of an AG for a programming language to be language independent by using a general attribution scheme, which gives rise to… 
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