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LISP ;-)

• xnacly 9mo ago
  This, lisp is perfect for representing arbitrary data, nesting is just another sexpr, easy to produce, easy to parse and easy to debug / reason about
  • pjmlp 9mo ago
    When I did my degree, the years prior to mine had some flexibility choosing the implementation language for compilers class. Lisp and Prolog were forbidden due to how easy the whole exercise would be.
• Octoth0rpe 9mo ago
  I can appreciate this answer, but I don't think it's really what I'm asking. I think I'm more looking for some kind of standardized struct definition that translates easily to llvm IR and is flexible enough for a wide variety of languages to target. Something like this: https://gist.github.com/thomaswp/8c8ef19bd5203ce8b6cd4d6df5e3db44 https://gist.github.com/thomaswp/8c8ef19bd5203ce8b6cd4d6df5e... (Which doesn't meet my criteria because AFAICT isn't used by anything, but is reasonably close to what I want) or this: https://docs.rs/sap-ast/latest/src/ast/lib.rs.html#1-83 https://docs.rs/sap-ast/latest/src/ast/lib.rs.html#1-83 (which seems specific to SAP, I would like something more general)