Blog posts tagged with 'saffire':
How Saffire doesn't do things different
Date: 21 Feb 2013Tags: [ saffire ]
The question I get asked a lot, is what makes Saffire different? The most honest answer: nothing. There is absolutely nothing that makes Saffire different from other language, because Saffire doesn’t do things different. And there is a good reason for this: after many decades of developing languages by many and much smarter people than yours truly, I do not pretend to have found the correct way on how to do things different - and better.
Saffire january 2013 update
Date: 26 Jan 2013Tags: [ saffire ] [ varags ]
Most development languages will have some kind of printf() functionality. It takes a string, and can have optional
arguments, depending on the placeholders you have set inside your string.
Writing a language
Date: 17 Aug 2012Tags: [ ast ] [ bison ] [ flex ] [ grammar ] [ lex ] [ saffire ] [ yacc ]
In the last blogpost I was talking about a new language in the making. Unfortunately, writing a complete new language - from scratch - isn’t as easy and takes a fair bit of time. During this development process, I will try and blog a bit on the things we are developing, the problems we are facing and the solutions we are implementing. The current Saffire status: we are able to generate AST tree’s from Saffire source programs. If you have no clue what I’m talking about, no worries: this blogpost will try and explain it all.
Saffire: A dive into a new language
Date: 04 Aug 2012Tags: [ bison ] [ flex ] [ saffire ]
Confused by Perl? Bored by Python? Ruby too 2011? What’s the alternative? PHP? Come on! Well, seek no further since here is the next language for at least the coming decade: Saffire!