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Build Your Own .NET Language and Compiler Edward G. Nilges
Publisher: Apress

At first, the programming community resisted the use of computers for program development, perhaps for the same hard-wired reasons some guys don't ask for directions when they're lost. Obviously the compilers need to do considerable lexical This is a problem we can solve once for you, and then let you make use of the analysis engine for your own purposes. Being originally a C++ programmer, I've All three technologies have very good and fast compilers, nicely designed languages with strong and static typing, comprehensive and very powerful libraries and relatively fast execution speed. It's “Build Your Own .Net Language and Compiler” (Apress-Springer). If you have worthless tests covering essentially non-functional code, then neither the compiler nor your coverage tool will ever be able to say “this property doesn't appear to be used by anything”. You don't test the .NET StreamWriter class to make sure it writes to a stream; you test the code you've written to make sure it writes the right thing to the stream. This applies to all language features, standard library functions and classes, and public APIs. Furthermore, it became clear as we were We want a compiler infrastructure that supports both new interesting language features, and more dynamic ways to interact with your code as you're developing it. All this is for counting everything anyone writes that could be called a compiler; the most popular mainstream language implementations may very well be focused on C implementation, but that doesn't mean the people who chose C for them knew what they were doing. In 2004, I published a book, which is still earning me royalties, chump. BR As I see it the major problem is that Tcl is interpreted (bytescodes are mostly a compile-time feature) while the language portability features of .NET seem to be targeted at (limited to?) compiled languages only. NET development, C# and Visual Basic. A goal of the Mono project is to build a "build your own framework" platform where you can use Mono+your app as an "appliance", dynamically reshaping not just assemblies but also the VM itself. NET runtime environment by Microsoft, and Flex to Mircosofts Silverlight: You can create Flash applets using Flex and run them on your desktop with some additional functionality like file saving and similar using AIR. For those of you who don't know what Boo is its a statically typed CLR language with Python like syntax that lets you extend it's compiler, and the language itself easily by giving you access to the AST (Abstract Syntax Tree) and Which is why I' ve been reading Ayende's book DSLs in Boo: Domain Specific Languages in .NET.