jorendorff / kraken

The Kraken Programming Language

Kraken

The Kraken Programming Language

The Kraken Programming Language is in its infancy. Currently, it consists of a RNGLALR parser written in C++ and a very experimental grammer that is evolving quickly. When compiled, the kraken program (as it is not yet a compiler) will take in a text file to be parsed, the grammer file to use, and a filename to output a DOT file to. Kraken will then generate the RN parsing tables from the grammer and then parse the input and export a DOT file that can be renderd into a graph using Graphviz.

It is invoked in this way: kraken inputTextFile inputGrammerFile outputFile.dot

It is built using CMake, which is also its only dependency.

It has the following design goals: -Compiled -Clean -Fast (both running and writing) -Good for Systems (including Operating Systems) programming -Minimal "magic" code. (no runtime, other libraries automatically included)

It is inspired by C/C++, Python, and Go.