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Language processors are not only important for the construction of compilers and interpreters but also for an increasing number of applications that relay on XML parsers like e-commerce software or grammar checkers like word processors.
Compiler construction tools have proven to be very useful for programmers and language designers although traditional tools have not seen much improvement in recent years. What is more important, those tools have bypassed the object-oriented revolution. This is particularly unfortunate because compilers, being complex systems, would definitely benefit from the modularity and code reuse that object orientation allows.
In this paper, an object-oriented framework generator called O2C2 is presented. The tool has the potential to improve the quality of compiler construction by introducing the concept of frameworks in the field of compilers and language processors.
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Basanta, D., Luengo, C., Izquierdo, R., Labra, J.E., Cueva, J.M. (2001). Constructing Language Processors using Object-Oriented Techniques. In: Patel, D., Choudhury, I., Patel, S., de Cesare, S. (eds) OOIS 2000. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0299-1_30
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