From: DrDiettrich1@aol.com   
      
   cr88192 schrieb:   
      
   >> I'd use different frontends (parser...) for each language, each building   
   >> an canonical AST. Where "canonical" means that the AST is understood by   
   >> all following stages.   
   >   
   > writing 3 parsers would mean maintaining 3 parsers, which is unecessary   
   > since most of the syntax is common between the languages...   
      
   Parsers usually have to deal with semantics (for disambiguation...) as   
   well, in detail with context sensitive C-ish languages.   
      
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