By Jerome Feldman, David Gries
Communications of the ACM,
February 1968,
Vol. 11 No. 2, Pages 77-113
10.1145/362896.362902
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A critical review of recent efforts to automate the writing of translators of programming languages is presented. The formal study of syntax and its application to translator writing are discussed in Section II. Various approaches to automating the postsyntactic (semantic) aspects of translator writing are discussed in Section III, and several related topics in Section IV.
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