LLVM is a compiler framework for programmatically generating machine-native code. Developers use it to roll out new languages and enhance existing ones.
Some say general-purpose languages such as Java are on their way out, soon to be replaced by DSLs for every occasion. Get ready for the shift in this first installment of Venkat Subramaniam's four-part introduction to domain-specific languages.
SCons is an open source computer software construction tool implemented in Python with automatic detection of source code file dependencies, MD5 signatures, and built-in support for C, C++, Objective-C, D, Yacc, Java, Qt, Fortran, Lex, and SWIG, as well as TeX and LaTeX documents. ...
BNF is not ony important to describe syntax rules in books, but it is very commonly used (with variants) by syntactic tools. See for example any book on LEX and YACC, the standard UNIX parser generators. If you have access to any Unix machine, you will probably find a chapter of the ...
Built-in support for C, C++, D, Java, Fortran, Yacc, Lex, Qt and SWIG, and building TeX and LaTeX documents. Easily extensible through user-defined Builders for other languages or file types. Building from central repositories of source code and/or pre-built targets. ...
In most programming environments which are not language-specific, there is a separate tool (calledyaccin Unix) that automatically converts a grammar into a function written in a normal language. For example,yaccconverts a yacc grammar, typically a .y file, into a C program, or .c file. ...