With this project I play around with ANTLR4 to create a own programinglanguage. First for learning purposes, but second also to build the next worlds best programming language ;)
Why I'm doing this? Since decades I'm blaming other languages for errors, faults and shortcommings. Something my friends always here from me: If I would do a programming language I would never do it like this, but that yada yada.
Over time I looked into lot of languages and read a lot of stuff about the topic. A dense concetrate about that you can find in the paper which is part of this repo. And if I would do my own language then it will be like in this specification.
This project is under heavy construction. A lot of things may change or disappear.
There is a distribution file with the latest executable and documentation in a zip file. To execute Cay-The on the command line simply run:
$> ./bin/caythe -h
You need a Java 8 VM and a Bash compatible shell to run the CLI.
Some thoughts or questions about basic language stuff.
In Python it is defined as:
Expressions only contain identifiers, literals and operators, where operators include arithmetic and boolean operators, the function call operator () the subscription operator [] and similar, and can be reduced to some kind of "value", which can be any Python object. (source)
Conclusions:
- Should add a method invocation operator
()such as the existing subscript operator[]. - Define the difference between expressions and statements. The Python way is nearly the same.
TODO