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Maybe I'm not reading correctly, but it seems the project is about making a language compiler and not a language itself?
by diogenesjunior 5y ago
Maybe I'm not reading correctly, but it seems the project is about making a language compiler and not a language itself?
- Mikeb85 5y agoFrom the site: > You can build an interpreter or a compiler, so long as it can run or build examples of code in the programming language you create. No you create a language, but it needs to be able to run. So need to either build a compiler or interpreter to make the language do things.
- spdegabrielle 5y agoWhat’s the difference?
- hazbo 5y agoWhen you think "language", try not to let your mind jump straight to "compiler" or "interpreter". Think more, "specification". If I asked you to write me a C compiler and you delivered on that, I'm not left with a new language. You didn't design a new language, only the compiler for an already specified language. Designing a language is more about defining a specification. Then 10 different compiler engineers may pick that spec up and implement 10 different implementations of the same language, for example.