[PLUG-Devel] Profiling a new programming language

[Joshua Zeidner]

 Ryan,

  I really love this area of CS because Im also very interested in
Linguistics.

  I would suggest reading the 'Dragon Book' :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principles_of_Compiler_Design   . It is a
standard in CS courses, but to do this kind of thing properly you need to
have a good understanding of CS theory, which goes into some of the
foundation of 20th century mathematics (Turing, Godel, etc.).  Researching
this area really gave me a lot of respect for how much theory really went
into the creation of modern computers.

  "*If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of
Giants." - Isaac Newton.

 *-jmz

On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 12:31 AM, Ryan Rix <phrkonaleash at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu November 13 2008 07:33:33 am Darrin Chandler wrote:
> > Once you've done that, you might want to put what you've got into a
> > formal notation such as BNF. If you can define it well enough then you
> > can turn to tools such as lex/flex & yacc/bison, which have been
> > designed to generate parsing code from specs. If you can't define your
> > language that well then you need to get to that point! Even if you end
> > up not using C/lex/yacc!
> >
>
> So, I have a BNF, completely finished IMO (attached as well) but I'm not
> entirely sure what to do with it... I ran it through this haskellmabob, but
> it doesn't really 'do' anything (the source was empty as far as I could
> tell)
> but... :)
>
> /me is lost
>
> ~Ryan on the way to bed...
>
> --
> Thanks and best regards,
> Ryan Rix
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