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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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.
Masaru Tomita (Wikipedia)
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the inventor of GLR parser algorithm
Ric Holt (Wikipedia)
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development of several compilers and compilation techniques
Dick Grune (Wikipedia)
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Grune was involved in the construction of Algol 68 compilers in the 1970s and the Amsterdam Compiler Kit in the 1980s.
Jay Earley (Wikipedia)
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He invented the Earley parser in his early career in computer science.
Paul Phillips (poker player) (Wikipedia)
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Phillips subsequently started working on the Scala compiler and standard library.
PowerBASIC (Wikipedia)
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the brand of several commercial compilers by PowerBASIC Inc. that compiled a dialect of the BASIC programming language
Loop fission and fusion (Wikipedia)
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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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