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A library whose logo is this animal includes the TableGen tool, which takes an input “target description” file with extension .td. A green one of these animals named Konqi is a mascot for the creator of the Plasma Desktop, KDE. (15[1])The NSA open-sourced their (-5[1])internal reverse engineering tool in 2019, which appropriately for its name (-5[1])depicts this animal in its logo. In an image, the phrases “LALR parser generator” and “syntax directed translation” are written on a person (-5[1])next to one of these animals representing complexity. Clang is a “frontend” that uses a project with this animal logo as a “backend”; (-5[1])that compiler toolchain is (*) LLVM. Monica Lam became a co-author alongside Jeffrey Ullmann and Alfred Aho for the second edition of a textbook with this animal on the cover. For 10 points, several classic textbooks about compiler design are nicknamed for their color and what animal (10[1])being battled on the cover? ■END■ (10[3])

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