COCO
Etymology: see *

                                           COCO/R

MAC NAME:  COCO/R                                     

VERSION: 2.2                                 

README:
"Compiler-Generator Coco/R
This distribution contains the source files of the compiler generator Coco/R as well as the executable application. Coco/R has been implemented with the Modula-2 MacMETH compiler from ETH Zurich."

AUTHOR:
Prof. H. Moessenboeck
    
COPYRIGHT:
(1994) ETH Zuerich, Institute fuer Computersysteme

INTERNET SITES:
ftp://neptune.inf.ethz.ch/pub/Coco/Macintosh/

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Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 10:52:56 +0200
To: "Antreas P. Hatzipolakis" <xpolakis@athena.compulink.gr>
From: moessenboeck@ssw.uni-linz.ac.at (Hanspeter Moessenboeck)

>I have a question about the name:
>What is the etymology of COCO/R?

"Coco" stands for compiler compiler. The original version of Coco generated table driven parsers; Coco/R generates recursive descent parsers. That is what "R" stands for.

Best regards
H. Moessenboeck