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by mech422 608 days ago
Ohh...thats a name I haven't heard in a while... along with the purdue compiler construction kit

funny how CLang basically blew right by them in terms of option as a 'base' to build languages on.

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It was basically dead by the time LLVM became a thing, in this industry we tend to reinvent a lot, pretending it is something utterly new.

Latest example, application servers in WebAssembly.

LLVM -- clang is the C language family front-end to LLVM.