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    Your own programming language!

    Hello guys,
    i wann learn how to create my own programming language and what tutorilas can i read!
    For example i wanna make a very simple program
    like:

    print (hello)

    and this will print hello? i must work with C do make my own language!
    I wanna make a very simple language lik eteh above with only 2-3 values like print and such...

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    You have to create a compiler for your new language. Something that will understand your syntax and do what you want with it. I don't advise it.

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    any tutorial how to maek a compiler?
    for example look AIML, does it need a compiler?

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    If you dance barefoot on the broken glass of undefined behaviour, you've got to expect the occasional cut.
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    I've been working on my own language for about a year or so now and it's been coming along pretty nicely so far, and basically how I started was just sat down and brainstormed ideas of how I think other languages worked, and then tried to redo that in a sense.

    Basically, just think in your head or on paper about how you would go about interpreting a language, and then turn that in to code.

    like, for example, in your case, you've got the

    print

    function, so your first task is to read in a file and analize it's contents and see if it says the word "print" in there, and then if it does, check for the correct syntax, like a parenthesis after that, and then the text in quotes, and a closing parenthesis, etc...

    just experiment and keep at it, you'll eventually get it if you work at it hard enough

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    writing a scripting language would be easier to start with i would imagine.
    I loathe pointers

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    I wanna make the same language like AIML

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    a good start would be to use lex and yacc to parse your language. if you can successfully create a yacc grammar then you can start to think about a compiler for it.
    "You are stupid! You are stupid! Oh, and don't forget, you are STUPID!" - Dexter

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    ok,
    i will try

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