how are programming languages written?
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Jump to PostOverly simplified, but first the language is designed, a grammar is devised, and then a compiler is written in another language.
A common way to test a new language is to write a bootstrapping compiler (ie. a compiler written in the language itself). But the first compiler basically must be …
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deceptikon
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Overly simplified, but first the language is designed, a grammar is devised, and then a compiler is written in another language.
A common way to test a new language is to write a bootstrapping compiler (ie. a compiler written in the language itself). But the first compiler basically must be written in another language.
tapananand
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Well, as deceptikon answered, you need to set all the standards first, decide on whether the language is procedural or object-oriented, the keywords and other "atomic"(indivisible) entities. Using these atomic entities a grammar is built, e.g. Backus-Naur Form(BNF). Also See this.
This grammar can be used to design and code the compiler. The compiler should also follow the standards decided in the first step.
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