Recently I wrote a very simple programming language, here is the repo, the language is extremely small, my objective was to write a programming language that can do fibonacci, that’s it.
fib written in square
[>:fib n:
[:if n < 3:
return n - 1
]
return [:fib n - 1] + [:fib n - 2]
]
[:fib 10]
[:print n]
it works!!!
It uses one of the most popular tools to write the grammar, the AST is very minimal and is executed in C, today I’m gonna explain the main components of a programming language trying to be as concise as possible.
The Grammar
This is the heart of the language, This is how you interact with the language, the grammar rules define how to write code for the language, I used flex and bison to write the grammar, the grammar of the language is written on square.y skim through those rules just to get a idea of how they work.
Here’s a grammar rule from the…
Recently I wrote a very simple programming language, here is the repo, the language is extremely small, my objective was to write a programming language that can do fibonacci, that’s it.
fib written in square
[>:fib n:
[:if n < 3:
return n - 1
]
return [:fib n - 1] + [:fib n - 2]
]
[:fib 10]
[:print n]
it works!!!
It uses one of the most popular tools to write the grammar, the AST is very minimal and is executed in C, today I’m gonna explain the main components of a programming language trying to be as concise as possible.
The Grammar
This is the heart of the language, This is how you interact with the language, the grammar rules define how to write code for the language, I used flex and bison to write the grammar, the grammar of the language is written on square.y skim through those rules just to get a idea of how they work.
Here’s a grammar rule from the…
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