The Edison Design Group (EDG) is a 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++.
graduate of the Indiana University Bloomington, and an experienced compiler engineer who had worked for Advanced Computer Techniques in New York City.