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Compilers and Language Implementation

This group gathers pioneers of software and its engineering whose primary contribution was building compilers, interpreters and the language runtime infrastructure that turns source code into running programs, including optimizing compiler theory such as data flow analysis and static single assignment form, virtual machines and bytecode interpreters, and cross language infrastructure such as LLVM. It follows the Compilers second-level heading of the ACM Computing Classification System under Software and its engineering. Their shared work is making an existing language run correctly and efficiently, as distinct from designing the language itself or building the surrounding developer tools.

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Alex Aiken

Software And Its Engineering

Alfred Aho

Software And Its Engineering
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Andrew Appel

Software And Its Engineering
1 link

Barry K. Rosen

Software And Its Engineering

Beatrice Worsley

Software And Its Engineering
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Bruce Arden

Software And Its Engineering
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Cornelis H. A. Koster

Software And Its Engineering
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David H. D. Warren

Software And Its Engineering
1 link

David Wheeler

Software And Its Engineering
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Dick Grune

Software And Its Engineering
1 link

Frances E. Allen

Software And Its Engineering
1 link

George N. Baird

Software And Its Engineering
1 link

Hans-J. Boehm

Software And Its Engineering

Jacques Cohen

Software And Its Engineering

Jay Earley

Software And Its Engineering
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Jeanne Ferrante

Software And Its Engineering
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Jeffrey D. Ullman

Theory of Computation
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Kathleen Booth

Software And Its Engineering
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Kathryn S. McKinley

Software And Its Engineering
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Kenneth Zadeck

Software And Its Engineering

Klaus Samelson

Software And Its Engineering
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L. Peter Deutsch

Software And Its Engineering

Loop fission and fusion

Optimization Algorithm

Mark N. Wegman

Software And Its Engineering
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Masaru Tomita

Software And Its Engineering
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Monica S. Lam

Software And Its Engineering
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Neil D. Jones

Software And Its Engineering
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Paul H. Cress

Software And Its Engineering
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Paul H. Dirksen

Software And Its Engineering

Paul Phillips (poker player)

Software And Its Engineering
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Ravi Sethi

Software And Its Engineering
1 link

Reinhard Wilhelm

Software And Its Engineering
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Ric Holt

Software And Its Engineering
1 link

Richard H. Lathwell

Software And Its Engineering

Richard R. Burton

Software And Its Engineering

Robert Dewar

Software And Its Engineering
2 links

Robert M. Graham (computer scientist)

Software And Its Engineering
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Robert Zale

Software And Its Engineering
1 link

Roger Moore

Software And Its Engineering
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Ron Cytron

Software And Its Engineering

Saman Amarasinghe

Software And Its Engineering
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Simon Marlow

Software And Its Engineering
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Simon Peyton Jones

Software And Its Engineering
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Stanley Gill

Software And Its Engineering

Stephen C. Johnson

Software And Its Engineering
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Susan L. Graham

Software And Its Engineering

Thomas W. Reps

Software And Its Engineering
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Vikram Adve

Software And Its Engineering
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Wes Graham

Software And Its Engineering

William Wulf

Software And Its Engineering
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1. Wikipedia: Compiler
Wikimedia FoundationCompiler, History section, A-0 compiler milestone entry
Quote, Compiler, History section, A-0 compiler milestone entry
Some early milestones in the development of compiler technology: May 1952: Grace Hopper's team at Remington Rand wrote the compiler for the A-0 programming language (and coined the term compiler to describe it), although the A-0 compiler functioned more as a loader or linker than the modern notion of a full compiler.
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Masaru Tomita (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Masaru Tomita, Lead section
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the inventor of GLR parser algorithm
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Ric Holt (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Ric Holt, Career [in-group]
Quote, Has Member: Ric Holt, Career [in-group]
development of several compilers and compilation techniques
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Dick Grune (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Dick Grune, Lead paragraph
Quote, Has Member: Dick Grune, Lead paragraph
Grune was involved in the construction of Algol 68 compilers in the 1970s and the Amsterdam Compiler Kit in the 1980s.
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Jay Earley (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Jay Earley, English Wikipedia, intro
Quote, Has Member: Jay Earley, English Wikipedia, intro
He invented the Earley parser in his early career in computer science.
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Paul Phillips (poker player) (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Paul Phillips (poker player), Programming, Scala compiler
Quote, Has Member: Paul Phillips (poker player), Programming, Scala compiler
Phillips subsequently started working on the Scala compiler and standard library.
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PowerBASIC (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Robert Zale, Lead, compilers
Quote, Has Member: Robert Zale, Lead, compilers
the brand of several commercial compilers by PowerBASIC Inc. that compiled a dialect of the BASIC programming language
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Loop fission and fusion (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Loop fission and fusion, Lead
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Loop fission (or loop distribution) is a compiler optimization in which a loop is broken into multiple loops over the same index range with each taking only a part of the original loop's body.
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