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JVMLS 2015 - Compilers are Databases
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Martin Odersky's JVM Language Summit 2015 talk argues that compilers can be thought of as databases. It describes design ideas for the Scala compiler and for developer tools.
Cited as the origin of the compilers-as-databases idea in discussions of IDEs and incremental tooling.
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