Re: Choosing a language for compiler design

:> Now that I have an Yacc/Lex files for Oberon, I face the problem of
:> choosing a language for its implementation.
:> I have versions of Yacc/Lex for C, C++, Turbo Pascal and Ada.


You need to decide what is important for you. If it is portability
then C++ is good since you don't need to use ALL of it.


Many years ago we conducted an experiment in a compiler course. We
had a language which included strings, recursion and many other
features that made systems programming easy, which was the major
language at the university. The class was divided into groups. One
group which had outside knowledge of Fortran which was NOT taught at
the university was allowed to implement their compiler in Fortran.
Granted it was for a toy language, but there was very little
difference in the time, size or problems with using Fortran compared
with the other language. We didn't have any component generators, it
was all done by hand coding, lex, parse, generate, symbol tables.




Ken Walter
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