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| From | Gene <gene.ressler@gmail.com> |
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| Subject | Re: Language Design |
| Date | Tue, 26 Jul 2011 10:28:18 -0700 (PDT) |
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On Jul 18, 4:16 pm, Billy Mays <81282ed9a88799d21e77957df2d84bd6514d9...@myhashismyemail.com> wrote: > I am trying to design a programming language for a simple processor > (16 bit, ~10 instructions, 16 registers). I am not sure what a > language actually needs in order to be more useful than pure assembly, > but is also reasonable to implement. ... > -- > Bill > [Rather than trying to invent yet another language, I'd retarget some >existing 16 bit C compiler. -John] The old Turbo Pascal 2.0 dialect was pretty remarkable. There was a version for Z80 (CP/M) and 8086 (MSDOS). I think the whole compiler was only 50K or so. The runtime was tiny (as it had to be), yet included floating point (6-byte proprietary), variable-length strings (up to 255 chars, not ANSI standard), sets over domains up to 255 in cardinality, primitive extensions to write memory and I/O ports, graphics (x86 only), an overlay system that was good enough to handle a 200K SLOC program for on the Z80, and probably some other stuff I'm foregetting. All this is to say that you could a lot worse than to re- implement this dialect of Pascal as well as it was in this case. Pascal is also straightforward to compile, especially if you don't allow nested functions/procedures (although Turbo did).
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Re: Language Design anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2011-07-19 13:12 +0000
Re: Language Design Andreas Zwinkau <zwinkau@kit.edu> - 2011-07-20 13:26 +0200
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Re: Language Design Christophe de Dinechin <christophe.de.dinechin@gmail.com> - 2011-07-23 08:17 -0700
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Re: Language Design Gene <gene.ressler@gmail.com> - 2011-07-26 10:28 -0700
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Re: Language Design tm <thomas.mertes@gmx.at> - 2011-07-27 08:11 -0700
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Re: Language Design for a tiny processor "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2011-08-08 22:54 +0100
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