Chapter 1: Why Build Another Programming Language?
This book will show you how to build your own programming language, but first, you should ask yourself, why would I want to do this? For a few of you, the answer will be simple: because it is so much fun. However, for the rest of us, it is a lot of work to build a programming language, and we need to be sure about it before we make a start. Do you have the patience and persistence that it takes?
This chapter points out a few good reasons for building your own programming language, as well as some situations where you don't have to build your contemplated language; after all, designing a class library for your application domain might be simpler and just as effective. However, libraries have ...
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