[pjmlp]

Back when I was at the university, Prolog and Lisp were the forbiden languages to write compilers on our compiler courses, because the teachers saw them as making the whole exercise too easy.

[dugmartin]

You should have written a tiny Lisp in whatever language they did allow and then go from there.

[pjmlp]

We got to use Java with JavaCC, this was back in 1998 and everyone wanted to use it, sounds familiar?