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From: Will@cup.portal.com (Will E Estes)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Using OO Languages for Compilers/Interpreters
Message-ID: <16915@cup.portal.com>
Date: 9 Apr 89 08:15:07 GMT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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I am curious about how well the object-oriented paradigm applies to
compiler and interpreter development.  I am specifically interested
in hearing about any projects using C++, but anyone who has ever
been involved a compiler/interpreter development project using any
object-oriented language please share your experiences.  Would
object-oriented techniques have more benefits for a typeless language
as opposed to one that is strongly typed?  What kinds of performance
degradation might you expect in the parser/code generator/optimizer/etc.?
If you have written a parser/interpreter in C++ can you share the code?
Finally, is there a YACC variant (YACC++ ?) that generates C++ code
for the parser?
Thanks,
Will