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- From: Sean.Wilson@f590.n139.z1.fidonet.org (Sean Wilson)
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- Subject: Compiler Tools
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- Date: Thu, 07 Jan 93 12:04:24 PDT
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- JM> I have had several inquiries in the last month for compiler tools.
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- JM> I know of 2 modula-2 systems.
- JM> Coco by P.Rechenberg and H.Mossenbock and
- JM> Rex and lalr-ell by Josef Grosch.
- JM> I hope I'm giving credit to the correct people.
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- Coco & Alex are available with full source and an acompanying book on
- compiler writing and compiler writing tools. I think the pricing would
- be around $150. The nice thing about the system is that it is available
- with full sourc in Modula-2 for a number of compilers on the PC and
- other platforms.
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- By far the best compiler writing tools I've seen to date are LALR & DFA
- by a company originally known as LALR. Last time I spoke with the
- author he told me that there were Modula-2 skeletons available although
- it shipped to generate C or binary code. The nice thing about LALR
- apart from it's speed is that it uses a series of macros in a skeleton
- file to determine how to generate the state information for an LALR
- parser or DFA lexical analyser. This means that the skeleton can
- be written in any suitable language.
-
- I think the company is now called pro-soft, they advertise in DDJ or
- PC-Techniques.
-
- Best Regards
- Sean Wilson
- (TopSpeed Technical Support)
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