Final Reflections
Reflect on everything you have learned so far.
What we have accomplished
Throughout this course, we broke down the complex task of programming language implementation into logical steps, equipping you with the theoretical knowledge and practical skills needed to design and implement your language. Let’s review the essential milestones we covered:
Language development steps
We began by outlining the high-level steps of developing a new programming language.
Language design: Defining the purpose of the language, its target users, and the types of problems it aims to solve.
Specification of syntax and semantics: Creating a formal specification for how programs in the language should be structured and how they should behave.
Tool selection: Choosing tools to assist with language implementation is important, specifically in the context of ANTLR for lexical and syntactic analysis and JastAdd for semantic analysis and abstract syntax trees (ASTs).
These foundational steps set the stage for deeper dives into language implementation. ...