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The compiler writer, like any software developer, can profitably use modern software development environments containing tools such as language editors, debuggers, version managers, profilers, test harnesses, and so on. In addition to these general software-development tools, other more specialized tools have been created to help implement various phases of a compiler. The most successful tools are those that hide the details of the generation algorithm and produce components that can be easily integrated into the remainder of the compiler. Some commonly used compiler-construction tools include: 1. Parser generators that automatically produce syntax analyzers from a grammatical description of a programming language. 2.   Scanner generators that produce lexical analyzers from a regular-expression description of the tokens of a language. 3. Syntax-directed translation engines that produce collections of routines for walking a parse tree and generating intermedia...