A Few Q's And A's

[PsyVision]

First Of All Hello

Over my time here i have noticed a few people requesting how to make it so ujust ur app (in vb) can have its own different coloured caption bar (any colours) and at any angle. Well i have the answer and if u mail me at:

[email protected]

And i will send it to you.

Secondly

How can and do people like PowerBASIC, DarkBASIC make their compilers. Is it possible for someone like me to make a compiler ?, (if i had the knowledege, or someone like Megatron, Kedaman, Fox, Parksie ) ????

Q. Is it hard to make ur own programming language ?

A. Probably ?

[MrShickadance]

It's possible for anyone to make a compiler!

It's more of a question of what's your understanding
of the ISA and how much time do you want to spend doing it.

Most compilers are written in C/C++.

It is very hard to make your own language! esp. if you want OO

Yes, i'm sure it's difficult to make your own programming language. If however, you want to make your own language, VB is certianly not the language for it. You would need to use C++ or Assembly or a combination of both.

[MrShickadance]

Of course ... it is mush easier to write a Interpreted/Scripting language like old GWBASIC etc. No need for a compiler!

[PsyVision]

Any demos do u know that show how to make a very simple compiler in C++, that has no debug, just so i can see ?

[MrShickadance]

well there really is no "simple" compiler

But, If you want to look at some compiler source code goto

http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/

it's a Freeware 32-bit C/C++ compiler.. I believe it is open source.... but I could be wrong

[PsyVision]

What about a BASIC compiler ?

All sounds very interesting - But is it only able to be done in C, using a C complier??

[PsyVision]

I dont mind what language the compiler is made in but i would like it to be like C/C++ and it can compile BASIC