How to Create a Turing Complete Programming Language in 40 Minutes

Using a programming language is cool. Writing a programming language is cooler. Writing one in 40 minutes rocks! I just released a screencast on how to create a Turing Complete programming language in 40 minutes and 70 lines of code using my Babel Bridge parser generation gem and Ruby.

In this example I use my Babel Bridge parser-generator gem: homepage / github

Here is the 70-line-source-code from the screencast.

We continue to need fresh minds and new approaches to programming. There are many great challenges facing us in improving programmer productivity and supporting programming in our massively parallel age. I hope this screencast wets your appetite to pick up a parser-generator and play around with your own language. Maybe you'll invent the next Ruby, Java or Javascript!