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From: jjc@jclark.UUCP (James Clark)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Compiler implementation in C++
Message-ID: <JJC.91May15103800@jclark.UUCP>
Date: 15 May 91 09:38:00 GMT
References: <1991May14.184613.25167@atc1.atc.com>
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In-Reply-To: suresh@atc1.atc.com's message of 14 May 91 18:46:13 GMT

In article <1991May14.184613.25167@atc1.atc.com> suresh@atc1.atc.com (P. Suresh) writes:

   We are writing a translator in C++ for a graphics description language,
   roughly of the size of a programming language.  This is our first C++ 
   project and will appreciate seeing some C++ code examples in the areas
   of parsing, semantics, symbol table handling, interpretors etc.  Does
   any one know a book or articles on these?  Is there a public-domain
   compiler for any language, small or big, that can get us started in
   the right direction in designing appropriate data structures
   (classes)?

You might want to have a look at groff which includes a C++
implementation of the pic graphics language.  It's not public domain,
but it is free.  You can get it by anonymous ftp from
prep.ai.mit.edu:pub/gnu/groff-1.01.tar.Z, or from your local GNU
archive.

James Clark
jjc@jclark.uucp