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can you create your own programming language with python?

• aye 12y ago
  Sure! You could use a parser generator like Yapps [0] to write a parser for your own programming language. [0]: http://mbreen.com/yapps2.html http://mbreen.com/yapps2.html
• pjmlp 12y ago
  Any Turing complete language can be used for writing compilers/interpreters, it is just harder in some than other. Python is actually pretty neat for doing it and you even have tools like PyPy (with RPython) to write a JIT for the language if you wish.
  • sklogic 12y ago
    You don't even need a Turing-complete language for writing compilers, see CompCert for example.
    • pjmlp 12y ago
      I need to dive into it. Do you mean it because of the formal logic being used?
      • sklogic 12y ago
        This is because compilation can be represented as a finite sequence of applying simple rewrite rules. You don't need a true Turing-complete language to do so, because you don't have any indeterminate loops in such process. Any simple total language (like Coq) is more than enough.