kludge

Check out the brainfsck language. There are some very simple/small compilers for it.

lectricpharaoh

Hehe, all Brainfuck does is shift the load from the machine to the man. How do you think it got its moniker? Someone was trying for absolute minimal Turing completeness when they wrote that.

Besides, isn't it interpreted? Last I looked (which was a while ago), I didn't see compilers for it.

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nnxion

Example of brainf*** By grumpy.

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SittingDuck

Probably someone was bored. The whole point of a compiler is to make it easier - duh!

pilot2000

just became a member to this forum and saw the posts on this matter.
anyway writting a compiler is for sure a really hard thing to do esspecailly if you haven't programmed alot yet.most compilers are written in c or c++.first of all you have to learn what a compiler exactly does.heres a small deal of one type of compiler
(1) lexical analysis > (2)syntactic analysis > (3)semantic analysis > (4)target code generation.
but the first thing to do is to determine your language.(not as easy)
there are allthough some tools that will make your life easier but knowing c is a must.try looking at gnu lex/flex and yacc/bison.

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