minilang

Inspired by BASICO, minilang is a little programming language. My intention was to keep the implementation brief, yet readable. It is bootstrapped, thus proving to be reasonably expressive. The compiler outputs x86-64 ASM code. Similar to Python, code blocks are formed via indentation. There is no type checking whatsoever, so be careful. Please, look into minilang.mini and you will quickly get the idea. Obligatorily, here is your first programme:

main():puts("Hello, world!")

Compile the throwaway compiler:

$ c99 minilang.c -o minilang

Bootstrap thus:

$ ./minilang minilang.mini minilang.s       # compile with throwaway compiler
$ gcc minilang.s -o minilang_jr             # GCC assembles the executable
$ ./minilang_jr minilang.mini minilang_jr.s # compile with bootstrapped compiler
$ diff minilang.s minilang_jr.s             # compare output -> equal