programming languages

[Testinging]

How hard is it to make your own programming language? What would you need to use to make one? :confused:

[MstrBob]

To make your own programming language? You'd need to know and fully understand binary machine code or a machine language. You'd then need to create a compiler, which would accept whatever the syntax for your language is, and turns it into the proper machine code. Good luck and God Bless if you're thinking about doing this. You better know what your doing.

Out of curiousity, why?

[Testinging]

no reason, just wondering :D :p

[pawky]

haha, have fun ;)

[NelsonN]

Originally posted by Testinging
no reason, just wondering :D :p

Some language developers will even create a language on top of an already established one. Like BASIC-TO-C. These guys have created a BASIC language environment that will save your BASIC code to C so that you can then use a C language compiler and compile the code. No need to learn C.

Just thought I throw this in to peak your curiosity even further. ;)

[PeOfEo]

You could probably build on an existing open source compiler for another language. For example, the whole mono project is open source. You could mod c# with the mono compiler... it will run on mac, linux, unix, and windows with mono. But DO NOT TRY TO SELL IT... you would be screwing with both novell and microsoft at that point! There are other open source compilers for other things out there too.

[buntine]

How hard is it to make your own programming language?

Well, nothing is really 'hard', but just a matter of time. However, this is not a task you would attempt without a team of highly experienced software engineers, dependant on the scope, of coarse.

Regards.