YACC

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Acronym	Definition
YACC	Yet Another Compiler-Compiler
YACC	Young Adult Conservation Corps
YACC	Yet Another CSO Compressor (software)
YACC	Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches (National Council of Churches in the USA)
YACC	Yet Another Credit Card
YACC	Yarmouth Area Chamber of Commerce (Massachusetts)

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MIT is built on a context-free language parser generator YACC with input file (declarations, productions, and subroutines).

Implementation of a model-tracing-based learning diagnosis system to promote elementary students' learning in mathematics

Many popular parser generators such as Yacc [Johnson 1975] restrict themselves to S-attributed grammars where all attributes can be evaluated "on-the-fly" during parsing.

Generation of LR Parsers by Partial Evaluation

This can be contrasted with Yacc, where some amount of effort is required to make nonliteral basic symbols available to the processor.

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Existing table construction methods (such as the popular Unix tools yacc and bison) may be used with very little change.

Efficient and Flexible Incremental Parsing

Finally, there are programs, such as yacc [11] that write their output on fixed name files, such as y.

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SandStone has converted an existing (and well tested) public domain yacc grammar for use with Visual Parse++.