New open proj: C/C++ compiler in C++, with link to Ed Willink's C++ yacc grammar

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<ol>
<li>Port the <A HREF="http://www-sop.inria.fr/mimosa/fp/Bigloo/">Bigloo</A>
<li>Port the <a href="http://www-sop.inria.fr/mimosa/fp/Bigloo/">Bigloo</A>
Scheme compiler, from Manuel Serrano at INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, to
output LLVM bytecode. It seems that it can already output .NET
bytecode, JVM bytecode, and C, so LLVM would ostensibly be another good
candidate.</li>
<li>Write a new frontend for C/C++ <b>in</b> C++, giving us the ability to
directly use LLVM C++ classes from within a compiler rather than use
C-based wrapper functions a la llvm-gcc. One possible starting point is the <a
href="http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/compiler-dependencies.html#faq-37.11">C++
yacc grammar by Ed Willink</a>.</li>
<li>Write a new frontend for some other language (Java? OCaml? Forth?)</li>
<li>Write a new backend for a target (IA64? MIPS? MMIX?)</li>
<li>Write a disassembler for machine code that would use TableGen to output