Re:Let's make a Teeny Tiny compiler
by edw on Sunday June 07, 2020 @01:10PM
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I can confirm that AppleSoft ][ BASIC stored its programs in memory in tokenized form.
On another note, I went ahead and wrote a code emitter, because I couldn't wait for part three (though I noticed it's in the GitHub repo). Once you get this compiler up and running the sane thing to do is write a Makefile so you can treat Teeny as a first-class programming language. Just add a Makefile with the following:
%.c : %.tiny
<TAB>python3 ./teenytiny.py $< > $@
And you'll be able to type `make hello` and have hello.tiny compiled to hello.c compiled to hello automagically. I can never pass up an opportunity to remind people that Make is wonderful.
On another note, I went ahead and wrote a code emitter, because I couldn't wait for part three (though I noticed it's in the GitHub repo). Once you get this compiler up and running the sane thing to do is write a Makefile so you can treat Teeny as a first-class programming language. Just add a Makefile with the following:
And you'll be able to type `make hello` and have hello.tiny compiled to hello.c compiled to hello automagically. I can never pass up an opportunity to remind people that Make is wonderful.