Edison Design Group

The Edison Design Group (EDG) is an American company that makes compiler front ends (preprocessing and parsing) for C++ and formerly Java and Fortran.^[2][3] Their front ends are widely used in commercially available compilers and code analysis tools. Users include the Intel C++ compiler,^[4] Microsoft Visual C++ (IntelliSense), NVIDIA CUDA Compiler, SGI MIPSpro, The Portland Group, and Comeau C++.^[5] They are widely known for having the first, and likely only, front end to implement the unused until C++20^[6] export keyword of C++.^{[7][8][9][10]}

Edison Design Group

Company type	Private
Industry	Software
Founded	1988 [1]
Headquarters	Scotch Plains, New Jersey
Key people	J. Stephen Adamczyk John Spicer Daveed Vandevoorde
Products	Compiler front ends
Number of employees	6
Website	www.edg.com

EDG was founded in 1988 in New Jersey by J. Stephen "Steve" Adamczyk, a 1974 B.S. graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a 1977 M.S. graduate of the Indiana University Bloomington, and an experienced compiler engineer who had worked for Advanced Computer Techniques in New York City.^[1][11]

Other employees include John Spicer and Daveed Vandevoorde.

See also

• Dinkumware, supplier of the standard library for several commercial C/C++ compilers