Dear sir, you have built a compiler
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Dear sir, you have built a compiler
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#2Oof
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#3I'm always surprised by the lack of "easy" parser/compiler toolkit for more or less complete DSL... It looks like there's only
- either full blown programming language for IT guys
- "natural language" AI toolkits (not really usable yet for just simple automation by users)
- graphical language like State Machine or "no code", missing loops and requiring mouse and boxes
However, most of the time, user simply need some kind of BASIC (like visual basic used a lot in "shadow IT" by users)... but there's really few libraries providing that kind of functionalites
Re: Dear sir, you have built a compiler
#4I'm always surprised by the lack of "easy" parser/compiler toolkit for more or less complete DSL... It looks like there's only - either full blown programming language for IT guys - "natural language" AI toolkits (not really usable yet for just simple automation by users) - graphical language like State Machine or "no code", missing loops and requiring mouse and boxes However, most of the time, user simply need some…
> However, most of the time, user simply need some kind of BASIC
"most of the time" is THE problem here. Once users approach a barrier (missing language feature) they will complain and push you until you implement that feature. After several such features some developer in basement of your building will say "ok, fine, I'll do it" and now you accidentally have a compiler.
Edit: I know because I've recently made a "almost universal data watcher" which can react to combination of measured values changed in different devices and execute actions. Simple solution, but I fear the day when someone needs to execute other recipes in response to data and creates loops.
Re: Dear sir, you have built a compiler
#5I'm always surprised by the lack of "easy" parser/compiler toolkit for more or less complete DSL... It looks like there's only - either full blown programming language for IT guys - "natural language" AI toolkits (not really usable yet for just simple automation by users) - graphical language like State Machine or "no code", missing loops and requiring mouse and boxes However, most of the time, user simply need some…
There's Forth. Many would argue it's not a full blown programming language, it's more like a toolkit to make DSLs.
Re: Dear sir, you have built a compiler
#6I'm always surprised by the lack of "easy" parser/compiler toolkit for more or less complete DSL... It looks like there's only - either full blown programming language for IT guys - "natural language" AI toolkits (not really usable yet for just simple automation by users) - graphical language like State Machine or "no code", missing loops and requiring mouse and boxes However, most of the time, user simply need some…
There's Forth. Many would argue it's not a full blown programming language, it's more like a toolkit to make DSLs.
It’s great when you don’t need to have a huge codebase.IME forth gets out of control quickly from a maintainability standpoint as you go big, but it is excellent at small dsl type tasks. The maintainability issues with forth might actually be solvable if the right IDE paradigm could be found.
Re: Dear sir, you have built a compiler
#7Oh this brings a lot of memories. I remember writing a DSL for visualization of logs that we collected when we were working in a hyper local geographical search engine. I was fresh out of college and this was when Google maps had yet to penetrate my country.
I started out with pylex, yacc and then what was supposed to be a quite simple DSL with a few keywords and a few nodes, very quickly exploded to a very complicated endeavor. Alas, I'll never be able to prove that it was Turing Complete. But that doesn't stop me from believing it.
Re: Dear sir, you have built a compiler
#8I'm always surprised by the lack of "easy" parser/compiler toolkit for more or less complete DSL... It looks like there's only - either full blown programming language for IT guys - "natural language" AI toolkits (not really usable yet for just simple automation by users) - graphical language like State Machine or "no code", missing loops and requiring mouse and boxes However, most of the time, user simply need some…
I think there's a tipping point. You start with a configuration or markup language. Then you add and add and add and next thing you know, you've built a very simple scripting language.
It's kind of like those people who cobble together a Turing complete implementation of HTML+CSS or Magic: the Gathering game. You can kind of stumble into completeness.
Re: Dear sir, you have built a compiler
#9I'm always surprised by the lack of "easy" parser/compiler toolkit for more or less complete DSL... It looks like there's only - either full blown programming language for IT guys - "natural language" AI toolkits (not really usable yet for just simple automation by users) - graphical language like State Machine or "no code", missing loops and requiring mouse and boxes However, most of the time, user simply need some…
Just use flex / bison?