How to design a programming language

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How to design a programming language

compiler implementation There DO exist some great compiler frontend, backend and library, so reinvent the wheel is lame...And it is even easier to use some VM as the running platform like JVM, CLI.

It is HELL when debuging and testing compiler

we'd rather be conservatism than aggrasive

Standard Library

Data Sturucture

Dictionary

Array

Set

Code Generation

Platform Dependent Optimization

Intermediate Code Generation change tree-style to linear-style if you use LLVM, JVM as backend, your job is done here

3-address

static single assignment form

Optimization

Platform Independent

copy propagation

common subexpression elimination

Especially for Functional language

Type Checking and Inferencing for static language

several inference algorithm

Hindley-Milner

Grammer Analyse u can get a parse tree from this analyse

Parser Combinator

YACC

grammer design Grammer is the so-called syntax

Syntactic Sugar

I love lisp.... who has NO grammer at all.

There can be SEVERAL grammers according to ONE sematics

semantic design

Flow Control

coroutine

continuation

build-in exception

Is non-structure jump allowed?

Sub Program

Is sub program allowed?

closure

lambda

Evaluation Strategy

The sequence of Evaluation

Lazy Evaluation

Eager Evaluation

Call Strategy

Is call by referance allowed?

Call by value

Call by name

First Class?

Storage

So-called Stackless Language

Scoping

Dynamic Scoping

Lexical Scoping

Is memory management by programmer allowed?

Is pointer allowed?

Programmer know the detail or not?

Programming Paradigm

some features

reflection

meta-programming

Both?

Declarative

Logical Language

Functional Language

Imperative

Type System

Sub-type

Type casting mechansim

Do we have type inference?

Is recusive type allowed?

Is subtype allowed?

Which formal system based on

Dynamic Type

Static Type

Strong Type

Weak Type