Re: What attributes of a programming language simplify its implementation?

From	gah4 <gah4@u.washington.edu>
Newsgroups	comp.compilers
Subject	Re: What attributes of a programming language simplify its implementation?
Date	2022-11-15 06:09 -0800
Organization	Compilers Central
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On Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at 2:31:08 AM UTC-8, minf...@arcor.de wrote:

(snip)

> > [...]
> > [Sounds like we're on our way to reinventing Forth. It had (still has)
> > famously tiny implementations. -John]

> Reinventing old wheels is not much fun. But use Forth as your toolbox
> to make your own DSL and you can go _very_ far without diving into
> all those dragon books and gigabyte compilers and toolsets.

Using lex/yacc or flex/bison, you can do it without going all that
deep into the books, or completely understanding them.

You can write C programs mostly without knowing how C compilers
work, and also for most other languages.

It then depends on how you define "simplify".

In the case of small embedded processors, where the size of
all the code is important, then you have to count code generated
by compilers and parser generators.

But most often, it is how much work it is for you.

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What attributes of a programming language simplify its implementation? Christopher F Clark <christopher.f.clark@compiler-resources.com> - 2022-09-30 12:46 +0100
  Re: What attributes of a programming language simplify its implementation? Martin Ward <martin@gkc.org.uk> - 2022-10-01 15:56 +0100
    Re: What attributes of a programming language simplify its implementation? gah4 <gah4@u.washington.edu> - 2022-10-01 17:05 -0700
      Re: What attributes of a programming language simplify its implementation? gah4 <gah4@u.washington.edu> - 2022-10-02 00:11 -0700
      Re: What attributes of a programming language simplify its implementation? "Robin Vowels" <robin51@dodo.com.au> - 2022-10-03 12:34 +1100
        Re: What attributes of a programming language simplify its implementation? robin51@dodo.com.au - 2022-10-03 15:59 +1100
          Re: What attributes of a programming language simplify its implementation? gah4 <gah4@u.washington.edu> - 2022-10-03 12:28 -0700
    Re: What attributes of a programming language simplify its implementation? Christopher F Clark <christopher.f.clark@compiler-resources.com> - 2022-10-02 01:21 +0100
  Re: What attributes of a programming language simplify its implementation? Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2022-10-08 22:44 +0000
    Re: What attributes of a programming language simplify its implementation? "minf...@arcor.de" <minforth@arcor.de> - 2022-11-14 05:14 -0800
      Re: What attributes of a programming language simplify its implementation? gah4 <gah4@u.washington.edu> - 2022-11-15 06:09 -0800
    RE: Re: What attributes of a programming language simplify its implementation? Roger L Costello <costello@mitre.org> - 2022-11-15 11:52 +0000
      Re: Re: What attributes of a programming language simplify its implementation? <minforth@arcor.de> - 2022-11-15 09:48 -0800
        Re: Re: What attributes of a programming language simplify its implementation? RPN? gah4 <gah4@u.washington.edu> - 2022-11-15 16:11 -0800
          Re: Re: What attributes of a programming language simplify its implementation? RPN? "minf...@arcor.de" <minforth@arcor.de> - 2022-11-16 04:54 -0800
            Re: Re: What attributes of a programming language simplify its implementation? RPN? "minf...@arcor.de" <minforth@arcor.de> - 2022-11-16 05:39 -0800
          Re: Re: What attributes of a programming language simplify its implementation? RPN? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2022-11-16 18:12 +0000

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