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you people are so hucking filarious.
way to take something and make a lame joke out of it... sheesh.
>How difficult would this be to do?
It shouldn't be terribly difficult, the hardest part would probably be coming up with a grammar for the new language that is both easy to use, understand, and can be broken down into C++ code with relative ease.
>Will the langauge that i create have any potential for use?
Probably not unless everyone loves the syntax and working with it. Then it may become widespread and become one of the popular languages...but this is a big if, there are a lot of languages that just don't take off.
>i'm also looking for someone with a few years of experience
>with varying programming languages to give me some syntax
>ideas and general advice.
The best advice I can give is to make the language as intuitive as you can. If it's easy to figure out then it will be easy to read and write quickly and efficiently. A good example of what not to do is the overloading of keywords and operators in C. The language is very compact, but much harder to understand and easier to mess up with because of things like static meaning two wildly different things based on the context.
-Prelude
My best code is written with the delete key.
Relax Aran
It's nice to have a few good laughs once in a while (and from the other side of the world).
(Well I've made five lines now yehey!!!)
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By the way, Aran, if you're gonna make an intuitive language, try modeling it on BASIC.
BASIC may not be a choice for most people here, but it is as near as can be to natural language.
Prelude's right. C is much too complex for intuitive usage even with its relatively small number of keywords. (Thus it would be a confusing model.)
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hmmm, yeah.. this could quite possibly be a whole hell of a lot of fun to do.
I've gotta do some research on writing compilers/linkers and i've gotta learn assembly.
This sounds like it could turn into one hell of a project.
Well, that is certainly the most thorough way to do it! But believe me, a much more managable project would be to have the compiling and linking done by an existing compiler! Then, all you would have to do is :
(1) Parse the new language input.
(2) Generate the C/C++ text.
(3) Feed the output directly into the command-line of, say, a mingw compiler (not forgetting to specifiy the project name, etc..)
(4) If the executable compiles, click on it and enjoy!
BTW: Personally, I do not like the idea of using defines to do the work. My advice would be to parse it.
Right!
I've read somewhere that interpreted languages are more versatile than compiled ones. Java (I think) is a interpreted language. That's why it has a good memory management scheme (it has an automatic garbage collector).
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C and C++ ARE interpreted languages! It is only because of the hard work of the developers of the languages that we are able to turn our words into compiled programs. Of course, first the text is interpreted, and then the result is compiled and linked...
Code:#include <cmath> #include <complex> bool euler_flip(bool value) { return std::pow ( std::complex<float>(std::exp(1.0)), std::complex<float>(0, 1) * std::complex<float>(std::atan(1.0) *(1 << (value + 2))) ).real() < 0; }
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>C and C++ ARE interpreted languages!
Are you sure about that? I think 'preprocessed' and 'interpreted' mean two different things. C/C++ code is preprocessed (tokenized) before they are compiled. On the other hand, interpreted BASIC is really implemented line-by-line by the 'interpreter'.
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>C and C++ ARE interpreted languages!
There is no such as an interpreted language or not interpreted language. A language is just a mathematical concept. But there are interpreters and compilers. An interpreter is just a piece of software which uses your source code as input, interprets it and runs the code. And a compiler is a piece of software which compiles your source code to machine language.
>Java (I think) is a interpreted language. That's why it has a
>good memory management scheme (it has an automatic
>garbage collector).
Java is compiled to bytecode. This bytecode is run by the JVM (Java Virtual Machine). The JVM also takes care of the garbage collection.
