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VCOCO: a visualisation tool for teaching compilers

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 30, Issue 3

Pages 199 - 202

https://doi.org/10.1145/290320.283123

Published: 01 August 1998 Publication History

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The study of the inner-workings of a compiler can be greatly simplified through use of a visible compiler. A visible compiler allows close inspection of the compilation process as a "real" program is being compiled. In this paper we present VCOCO (Visible COmpiler COmpiler), a program that generates LL(1) visible compilers.

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