Language description for front end implementation
Anya Helene Bagge · 2010
For a language to be useful, it requires a robust and reliable implementation. Writing and maintaining such an implementation is a hard task, particularly for experimental or domain-specific language projects where resources are limited. This paper describes an implementation approach based on modular specifications of syntax and static semantics. Specification is done in a language description DSL, which serves both as a specification, and as code from which compiler front ends can be automatically generated.