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Object-oriented software development has become the de-facto standard programming paradigm used in modern software systems. Additionally genericity has grown more popular since the enhancement of Java and C#. This paper attempts to reconsider the principles of compiler construction from this modern, object-oriented point of view. We present a multi-paradigm, mainly object-oriented and generic approach for creating a compiler generator using a combination of the Interpreter pattern and the Visitor pattern. A prototype of such an object-oriented and generic compiler generator has also been developed using C# 2.0 and will serve as a reference to explain the design throughout this paper.
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Pitzer, M., Dobler, H. (2007). An Object-Oriented and Generic Compiler Generator. In: Moreno Díaz, R., Pichler, F., Quesada Arencibia, A. (eds) Computer Aided Systems Theory – EUROCAST 2007. EUROCAST 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4739. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75867-9_17
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