how to start writing a very simple programming language
- by Rex Homming
Recently, I was going around looking for ideas on what I can build using C this summer and I came across this post: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1257376/interesting-project-to-learn-c
Implement a programming language. This
doesn't have to be terribly hard - I
did the language that must not be
named - but it will force you to learn
a lot of the important parts of C. If
you don't want to write a lexer and/or
parser yourself, you can use lex/flex
and yacc/bison, but if you plan on
that you might want to start with a
somewhat smaller project.
I was kinda intrigued about the implementing a programming language answer and I'm wondering how do I go about starting this? I've gone through the whole K&R book and I've done some of the exercises as well. I also have a bit of experience in C++ and Java if that matters. Any tips? Thanks!
