Re: Fast prototyping of a language

rafe@cs.mu.oz.au (Ralph Becket)
5 Dec 2004 21:34:54 -0500

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From: rafe@cs.mu.oz.au (Ralph Becket)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 5 Dec 2004 21:34:54 -0500
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Posted-Date: 05 Dec 2004 21:34:54 EST

Bruno Barberi Gnecco <brunobg@users.sourceforge.net> wrote
> I'd like to prototype a new language quickly. Speed is not of
> concern, and the language can be interpreted. Any suggestions? I'm
> trying to avoid writing a full flex/yacc parser...


Two suggestions come to mind:
(1) many people have successfully developed domain specific languages
as collections of combinators in Haskell;
(2) the early work on Erlang was done in Prolog which allowed for
rapid experimentation and development.
In each case you can almost avoid parsing issues altogether.


-- Ralph

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