ELI5 version: you write a program in an existing language to read and compile the new language. Eventually using this method you can write a compiler program in the new language for the new language. Then you don't need the old lang anymore
To go further Google "tokenization" and "abstract syntax trees"
ELI5 version: you write a program in an existing language to read and compile the new language. Eventually using this method you can write a compiler program in the new language for the new language. Then you don't need the old lang anymore
To go further Google "tokenization" and "abstract syntax trees"
This is super simple and exactly what I was hoping for! Haha thank you!