Writing Your Own Toy Compiler Using Flex, Bison and LLVM

Re:Writing Your Own Toy Compiler Using Flex, Bison and LLVM by RiderOfGiraffes on Monday September 21, 2009 @03:22PM (#835302)

And there, to some extent, is the point. People will continue to write "popular press" articles about builing compilers using flex and bison, possibly targetting C as an intermediate language, until the ML community (or equivalent) becomes less clannish.

I'd love to see how clever they are, applaud them for it, and build on their work. They don't seem to care.

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Re:Writing Your Own Toy Compiler Using Flex, Bison and LLVM by silentbicycle on Monday September 21, 2009 @05:10PM (#835599)

Indeed. I think the ML languages have a lot of ideas that should see more widespread use, but the community (with exceptions, naturally) seems to be more motivated by reputation within academia than on blogs and other open discussions. That's their prerogative, I guess, but it does mean that little activity around ML is visible outside certain circles.

I'm curious about writing interpreters / compilers in Prolog (another language that seems particularly suited to prototyping them), as well, but I've already got plenty of projects.

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