Re:How Difficult is it to Write a Compiler?
by akeefer on Monday December 15, 2008 @07:26PM
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Indeed . . . as someone who works with an in-house language, I can affirm that the ratio of time we've spent on the initial parse/compile steps to the time spent on things like error reporting and optimization is probably approaching 1:100 at this point.
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Re:How Difficult is it to Write a Compiler?
by michaelneale on Monday December 15, 2008 @11:51PM
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I find the error reporting the hardest thing. And a lot of "tips and techniques" kind of neglect that you actually may have syntax errors and need to report them to the user in a helpful way.