Writing a language

I think you might be confused by the difference between designing a programming languages and implemeneting a programming language.

When you actually design a language, you don''t deal with other languages, at least not directly, you might borrow ideas from the other languages thouhg. When to design and write the language definition, you use a lot of mathemetical stuff that I won''t get into(it''s things like Backus-Naur form, and context-free grammers) And then you have to define syntax and symantics ...etc.

To actually write an implementation of a language however, you would likely use other languages, and usually assembly language for optimization.

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Original post by andromeda
If the latter is the case, what language was Perl written in? C?

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The Perl interpreter and the runtime environment is written in C, yes.

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Original post by Arild Fines
[quote]Original post by andromeda
If the latter is the case, what language was Perl written in? C?

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The Perl interpreter and the runtime environment is written in C, yes.

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The world holds two classes of men -- intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence. - Abu''l-Ala-Al-Ma''arri (973-1057; Syrian poet)

I can''t guaranty it but I think so. Although, it might be written in something else but as far as I can tell, the Linux perl interpreter was written in C. Had to compile it on a distro I was testing for work that get all packages in source format to optimise code for your system...

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