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Hi everyone,
I have a really quick OT question for you guys. I
really like Lua, I enjoy scripting in it, but being the curious fellow that I
am, I force myself to learn how everything that I use works, thus, through my
use of Lua I am attempting to learn how to write my own programming language, as
sort of an "I knew I could actually do it" sort of situation. This language is
not meant for distribution, and is simply to see if I can do it. I of course
could just copy the entire Lua lexer/parser/generator/vm, but that would teach
me nothing. Instead, I would like to know if any of you had any recommendations
for good books to read to learn about writing a programming or scripting
language.
I understand the lexing and parsing part of the
process (I think at least, Lua is a LR(1) parser right? Left->right, one
lookahead token? That is what I got from looking at the code and given my
understanding of that kind of parser. Lua on the other hand doesn't seem to use
the shift/reduce methodology, or I am just missing something entirely, but
anyways, this is off on a tangent ;).
I really need a decent book on the parsing ->
code generation -> VM part of it all, or at least some good resources on the
net to read. Lua's style is fine, as is a register based VM setup. I am not out
ot learn the way that EVERY language works, just why Lua works internally the
way it does :) If there are any "Golden Books" of language creation (like The
C++ Language is a "Golden Book" for any C++ programmer, because its kind of a de
factor standard book to own), I would like to pick them up :)
Thanks in advance guys, and thanks for tolerating
my odd ramblings :)
Matt "Kerion" Holmes
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