Our own little computer language

1 · Rasmus · Oct. 7, 2012, midnight
Let’s write our own programming language. It’ll be fun and we will learn some key tools for processing structured data, performing semantic analysis, how to make a computer execute code, and all this using modern JavaScript. We will create five major components, each outlined in a separate article: Lexical analyzer Semantic parser Code generator Management and support Runtime library Today we will actually do two things: Define a first version of our language’ lexicon, and write a lexical anal...