[anyfoo]

> if you want more of a challenge try a compiler compiler that can compile itself... :)

Is that not what OP did?

[Koshkin]

No (if the parent really meant ‘compiler compiler’ which, I think, would be what yacc/bison is).

[anyfoo]

Ah, thanks. My brain actually did not see that second "compiler" when reading, now it makes sense.

[downboots]

How could you tell the difference between missing it and your brain filtering it out?

[anyfoo]

Isn’t that the same now?

By the way, I dislike the term “compiler compiler”, because that’s not really what it does. I like “parser generator” for tax/bison, and “lexer generator” for flex.

[ModernMech]

yacc calls it's a compiler compiler, but it's a parser compiler.

[anyfoo]

I'd go further and say "parser generator", the generated parser will be compiled by a C compiler after all.