Aho explains how Lex and YACC revolutionized compiler creation by uniting theory and practice
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.ย. 2024
- Alfred Vaino Aho, winner of the Association for Computing Machinery's A.M. Turing Award, discusses his work at Bell Labs with Jeff Ullman and Steve Johnson to create the parser generator YACC and lexical analyzer generator Lex. These tools revolutionized the creation of compilers, allowing his undergraduate students to design a language and implement a compiler for it as their term project. This clip is taken from an interview conducted with Aho by Hansen Hsu for the ACM and Computer History Museum on June 13, 2022. Video of the full interview is available as part of Aho’s ACM profile at amturing.acm.o....