I was planning on learning a way to create my own programming language and I wanted to know what language to write a compiler with. C? C++?
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I was planning on learning a way to create my own programming language and I wanted to know what language to write a compiler with. C? C++?
Windows Vista and newer come with the .NET Framework installed by default. That in turn already provides a compiler for the .NET languages (most notably C# and VB.NET). It’s the only provided language you could possibly write an efficient compiler in. Other languages are VBScript and JScript (via windows Scripting Host) and batch files, so nothing you’d really want to implement more complicated stuff in.
Depending on the complexity of the language you want to create, a C++ implementation may provide better performance, though. No offense, but you don’t quite make the impression that you really know how to implement a compiler for a new language. Greg Hewgill’s link should give you some starting points there. The thing is, creating a new (formal) language is anything but a trivial task. Yes, the tools to do it are free, and so is the knowledge. But you should really already have a solid understanding of the programming language you want to write the compiler or interpreter in before even attempting to do it.