Re^3: Writing a Programming Language in Perl

The grammar of a language defines its syntax. Parsers (e.g. Marpa) take a sequence of bytes, characters or tokens, check if it conforms to the grammar, and assigns meaning to the components of the sequence as per the grammar.

For example, the job of the parser is to receive "a+b*c" and return "a multiplication of ( an addition of ( identifier a ) and (identifier b ) ) and ( identifier c )".

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Re^4: Writing a Programming Language in Perl by programmer99 (Novice) on Oct 25, 2011 at 22:30 UTC
I am extremely greatful of the info that has been givenfrom everyone, really I am. But how does Marpa help me create a language/compiler in Perl?	[reply]
Re^5: Writing a Programming Language in Perl by ikegami (Patriarch) on Oct 25, 2011 at 22:32 UTC
You need to be able to parse the code before you can compile or execute it. It helps you by creating the parser for you.	[reply]
Re^6: Writing a Programming Language in Perl by programmer99 (Novice) on Oct 25, 2011 at 22:56 UTC
So the parsed code goes through a compiler? And then it is executed?	[reply]
Re^7: Writing a Programming Language in Perl by chromatic (Archbishop) on Oct 26, 2011 at 03:22 UTC
Re^8: Writing a Programming Language in Perl by programmer99 (Novice) on Oct 26, 2011 at 09:39 UTC