[plug] Writing a language?

[Trevor Phillips]

On Monday 16 June 2003 09:36, Simon Scott wrote:
>
> Just wondering if anyone here has any experience in writing languages?

I have, although I started with no training in compiler design, which was fun. 
^_^

> The main difficulty I would have I imagine would be parsing and checking
> syntax.... Are there any examples/libraries for parsing freeform text?

My language uses an XML-style structure, so the actual text parsing of the 
source can be done by third-party libraries for that sort of stuff.

Oh, and yes, I wrote my language in Perl (a scary concept to be sure), so when 
I do have to parse text myself (and the original version DID parse the code 
itself), you have the power of regexp's at hand.

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