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I am seeing all these new languages for .NET and JVM. How does one begin to make one?
I can’t find any good documentation on JVM or MSIL specifications.
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I already know how to parse, I am more interested in how there are so many people making new languages that are based on those platforms.
You’re kind of in luck. There is an explosion of languages being developed for .NET, and there are articles / resources targeted at individuals such as yourself (not just large corporations with tons of money to invest).
Search for ‘dynamic language runtime’, and go from there.
Here are some links:
Blog of the guy who is the brain behind IronPython
The home of the Dynamic Language Runtime
An article about how IronPython was implemented
A blog posting talking about abstract syntax trees and the DLR