Building Server-Side Web Language Processors


This blog entry is called “Building Server-Side Web Language Processors” and as the last reading it is of our Compiler Design teacher Ariel Ortiz, I am going to talk about this reading and to give a brief opinion about it, nowadays the trend in computing is to leave the local processing behind and to use a new technology or idea which is running everything on the web and while we are focusing right now into building a compiler in our computers, the idea is to build a web compiler and this reading is about fulfilling that idea.

There is a high demand for web-based applications nowadays, they make everything far easier to run and as I stated before the challenge is to build a compiler web based, and obviously to build a compiler you would need to follow the same rules which we follow to build a normal compiler, however the difficult part is to fuse this rule with concepts like syntax, security, protocols, etcetera.

It is important take into consideration that, even though you are going to create a web-based compiler with everything that comes with it, you do not have to create or invent everything. In order to make the process easier as possible you might consider the fact that now we have existing web technologies and documentation that might be helpful during the process and that these tools can save you some time. You need to be smart while using your resources into building anything and to build a compiler from zero and web based would be a very bad use of resources.

Overall I think it would be exiting to try and build a compiler this way however I want to focus first into building the one for the course and then perhaps, trying new things.




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