Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

Compiler-Compiler
     
        An early {compiler generator} for the {Atlas}, with its own
        distinctive input language.
     
        ["The Compiler-Compiler", R.A. Brooker et al, Ann Rev
        Automatic Programming 3:229-275, Pergamon 1963].
     
        (1994-10-24)

compiler-compiler
     
        A utility to generate the {source code} of a {parser},
        {interpreter} or {compiler} from an annotated language
        description (usually in {BNF}).  Most so called
        compiler-compilers are really just {parser generator}s.
     
        Examples are {Bison}, {Eli}, {FSL}, {META 5}, {MUG2},
        {Parsley}, {Pre-cc}, {Yacc}.
     
        (1995-01-23)