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Compiler construction is considered to be "hard", even though it is not that hard. It is probably just not well understood. Many problems that, at first glance, have little to do with the construction of compilers and script engines, can be solved with compiler construction tools. These problems are usually quite hard to solve without.

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The great debate: Kant versus Aristotle 14 April 2012 2254
Gall and Pareto applied to software development 31 March 2012 2370
A compiler plugin to support casting 01 April 2012 1369
A compiler plugin for the traditional SWITCH statement 15 January 2012 3679
Adding the BREAK and CONTINUE statements to the Kandal compiler prototype 12 January 2012 4192
The FOR looping statement. A semantic compiler plugin 09 January 2012 4747
A pluggable compiler and virtual machine in Php. Dogfood yourself with your own plugins! 07 January 2012 7830
Adding support for if, while, and do while, to a simple compiler and virtual machine written in Php 03 January 2012 4743
A simple bytecode compiler with virtual machine, written in Php, for the EL language 28 December 2011 5031
Using Bison as a parser generator for Php 25 December 2011 2736
Using the PCRE library as a lexer in Php 22 December 2011 2212
SQL-style map/reduce programming in bash 22 December 2011 1404
Parsing object-oriented expressions with Dijkstra's shunting yard algorithm 22 December 2011 3075