Re: implementation languages, was Supporting multiple input syntaxes

From	luser droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com.dmarc.email>
Newsgroups	comp.compilers
Subject	Re: implementation languages, was Supporting multiple input syntaxes
Date	2020-08-23 20:39 -0700
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On Sunday, August 23, 2020 at 10:15:06 PM UTC-5, luser droog wrote:

> Thanks to everyone for the help, esp. Kaz with the brilliant suggestion
> to pass a language id token between tokenizer and parser.
>
>
> Ps. the prototype is written in PostScript extended with function syntax.
> https://github.com/luser-dr00g/pcomb/blob/master/ps/pc11.ps
> https://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/193520/an-enhanced-syntax-for-defining-functions-in-postscript
>
> --
> l droog
> [Why Postscript?  I realize it's Turing complete, but it seems odd to run ones parser on a printer. -John]

I discovered PostScript around '97 or '98. I was taking Computer Graphics
and it was in an Appendix to the textbook (Salman). At the same time
I was editor of the Honors College student magazine so it really piqued
my interest as a graphics and typography language.

But the language itself I just really enjoy. It's my "Lego blocks"
language. The RPN syntax removes all ambiguity about precedence and
sequencing. It has the same code=data properties as Lisp. Application
code can read from the program stream. It has strings, arrays and
dictionaries. It has first class procedures which can be constructed
on the fly. I've found it a nice playpen for syntax extension.

I was also on a many-decades long crusade to never use MS Word after that
/first/ time they screwed everyone by changing the interface. And
PostScript has slowly become my tool for that as my programming skill grew.
https://github.com/luser-dr00g/ibis.ps

On another front, I wanted to have parsers in PostScript so I could
evaluate infix math expressions. And I wanted regular expression
matching in PS thinking it would help to implement algorithmic
hyphenation of text.
[Take a look at Forth.  Many of the same advantages, runs a lot more places. -John]

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Supporting multiple input syntaxes luser droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com.dmarc.email> - 2020-08-12 15:20 -0700
  Re: Supporting multiple input syntaxes Kaz Kylheku <793-849-0957@kylheku.com> - 2020-08-13 00:43 +0000
  Re: Supporting multiple input syntaxes Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@netscape.net> - 2020-08-13 10:27 +0200
    Re: Supporting multiple input syntaxes luser droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com.dmarc.email> - 2020-08-13 21:36 -0700
    Re: Supporting multiple input syntaxes luser droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com.dmarc.email> - 2020-08-23 22:16 -0700
  Re: Supporting multiple input syntaxes minforth@arcor.de - 2020-08-13 14:15 -0700
    Re: Supporting multiple input syntaxes luser droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com.dmarc.email> - 2020-08-13 21:37 -0700
    RE: Supporting mulitple input syntaxes Christopher F Clark <christopher.f.clark@compiler-resources.com> - 2020-08-14 12:44 +0300
  Supporting multiple input syntaxes David Lovemore <davidlovemore@gmail.com> - 2020-08-15 06:42 -0700
    Re: Supporting multiple input syntaxes luser droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com.dmarc.email> - 2020-08-15 15:20 -0700
      Re: Supporting multiple input syntaxes David Lovemore <davidlovemore@gmail.com> - 2020-08-16 02:21 -0700
        Re: Supporting multiple input syntaxes luser droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com.dmarc.email> - 2020-08-20 14:45 -0700
          Re: Supporting multiple input syntaxes luser droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com.dmarc.email> - 2020-08-23 19:35 -0700
            Re: implementation languages, was Supporting multiple input syntaxes luser droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com.dmarc.email> - 2020-08-23 20:39 -0700
              Re: implementation languages, was Supporting multiple input syntaxes Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2020-08-24 17:01 +0000
                Re: implementation languages, was Supporting multiple input syntaxes luser droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com.dmarc.email> - 2020-08-28 10:56 -0700
              Re: stack languages, was Supporting multiple input syntaxes luser droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com.dmarc.email> - 2020-08-24 12:14 -0700
  Re: Supporting multiple input syntaxes gah4 <gah4@u.washington.edu> - 2020-08-23 14:26 -0700
  Re: Supporting multiple input syntaxes antispam@math.uni.wroc.pl - 2021-02-11 23:27 +0000
    Re: Supporting multiple input syntaxes Elijah Stone <elronnd@elronnd.net> - 2021-02-17 01:44 -0800
      Re: Supporting multiple input syntaxes antispam@math.uni.wroc.pl - 2021-02-23 23:28 +0000
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