Of course C is not the only option, and perhaps not an option at all for newbies. JavaCC can be a good medium to build your own language too. They recently adde

Of course C is not the only option, and perhaps not an option at all for newbies. JavaCC can be a good medium to build your own language too. They recently added the ability to generate C/C++ code (https://java.net/projects/javacc https://java.net/projects/javacc) Is there any tree building capabilities using C?