Programming language design

Squall

2011-04-05T09:10:11

I created a programming language and wrote it in my computer. It is an experimental non-professional programming language that I created for fun.

A language needs the most important thing, a compiler.

Is it a good idea to convert the source code to C/++ and call GCC?

My language looks like C++ and Java, it would not be difficult to convert without a parser.

It is not my goal to optimize anything neither to generate a binary for each platform. If I generate a C source, I can compile it for many platforms and use GCC optimizations.

I do not know about tools that may help me, some tools that I know the name are yacc and llvm, but I do not know how they can help me.

The first part of fun is the design of programming language, the second part of fun is the implementation of runtime details. I think that a parser implementation is not a great fun.

Thanks

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