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TinyCompiler: A compiler in a week-end
Introduction Have you ever wondered how a compiler works, but you never found courage to find out? Then this series of articles is for you. I have never had the chance to look under the hood either, but one week-end I have decided to to write a translator from the esoteric programming language wend (short for week-end), which I just invented myself, into regular GNU assembly.
Wend is strongly typed, with no pointers, arrays, closures, dynamic memory allocation, garbage collector or parallel computations. By the way, I have spent a lot more time on writing test programs than on the compiler itself :) It is so dull to compute Fibonacci numbers, so here are more eyecandy examples for the compiler, check test-programs/gfx/*.wend files.
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