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by Silhouette 2645 days ago
What sort of language are you interested in implementing? Once you've got past the lexing and parsing stages, the implementation strategy can be quite different for, say, a functional-style language and an imperative OO-style language, so it would be helpful to know more and then perhaps some of us could suggest suitable material.
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Preferably something with the syntax of Java.
His point is that syntax is nearly the most irrelevant part of language implementation.

- "I want to build a house"

- "OK, what kind of house"

- "Preferably red"