Edison Design Group

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| name = Edison Design Group

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| type = Private

| foundation = 1988

| location = Scotch Plains, New Jersey

| key_people = J. Stephen Adamczyk
John Spicer
Daveed Vandevoorde

| industry = Software

| products = Compiler front ends

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| num_employees = 6

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| homepage = {{URL|https://www.edg.com/}}

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The Edison Design Group (EDG) is an American company that makes compiler front ends (preprocessing and parsing) for C++ and formerly Java and Fortran.{{cite book|title=C++ cookbook|year=2005|publisher=O'Reilly Media, Inc.|isbn=978-0-596-00761-4|page=7|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XclHqTM37UIC&pg=PT23 |author=D. Ryan Stephens|accessdate=21 December 2010}}{{cite news|last=Briand|first=Marc|title=Editor's Forum |url=http://www.drdobbs.com/184403431;jsessionid=5MNUUUW04KAXNQE1GHPSKH4ATMY32JVN|accessdate=21 December 2010|newspaper=Dr. Dobb's Journal|date=1 December 2007}} Their front ends are widely used in commercially available compilers and code analysis tools. Users include the Intel C++ compiler,{{cite web |url=http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-c-compiler-for-windows-general-compatibility-with-other-products/#17 |title=General compatibility of the Intel C++ Compiler for Windows |publisher=Software.intel.com |accessdate=2012-05-04 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120207092727/http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-c-compiler-for-windows-general-compatibility-with-other-products/#17 |archivedate=2012-02-07 }} Microsoft Visual C++ (IntelliSense), NVIDIA CUDA Compiler, SGI MIPSpro, The Portland Group, and Comeau C++.{{cite web |title=Frequently Asked Questions: Who are your customers? |url=http://www.edg.com/faq/customers |publisher=Edison Design Group |accessdate=2018-03-11 |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170827073820/http://edg.com/faq |archivedate=2017-08-27 }} They are widely known for having the first, and likely only, front end to implement the unused until C++20{{cite web|title=Using export keyword with templates |url=https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5416872/using-export-keyword-with-templates|accessdate=2018-03-11}} export keyword of C++.{{cite web|url= http://www.open-std.org/Jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2003/n1426.pdf |title=Why We Can't Afford Export }} {{small|(266 KB)}}{{cite book|title=C++ templates: the complete guide|year=2003|publisher=Addison-Wesley|isbn=978-0-201-73484-3|page=70|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yQU-NlmQb_UC&pg=PA70 |author=David Vandevoorde|author2=Nicolai M. Josuttis|accessdate=21 December 2010}}Daveed Vandevoorde (10 January 2002). [https://groups.google.com/group/comp.std.c++/msg/f7976e6672db4544 "Implementability of export"] comp.std.c++.Daveed Vandevoorde (28 February 2002). [https://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.c++.moderated/msg/08ca5b1f06f689db "The export keyword"]. comp.lang.c++.moderated.

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.{{cite web|title=Company Background |url=http://www.edg.com/company/background |publisher=Edison Design Group |accessdate=2018-03-11 |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170906082205/http://www.edg.com/company/background|archivedate=2017-09-06 }}{{cite news|title=The On-line Mystique |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/72226814.html?dids=72226814:72226814&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Feb+27,+1994&author=Paula+Span&pub=The+Washington+Post+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=THE+ON-LINE+MYSTIQUE&pqatl=google |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121104185823/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/72226814.html?dids=72226814:72226814&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Feb+27,+1994&author=Paula+Span&pub=The+Washington+Post+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=THE+ON-LINE+MYSTIQUE&pqatl=google |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 4, 2012 |accessdate=21 December 2010 |newspaper=The Washington Post|date=27 February 1994|author=Paula Span|page=w.11}}

Other employees include John Spicer and Daveed Vandevoorde.