The POOL programming language is a cool project – it’s fun to write your own programming language that does everything the way you like. I’ll give a short status update for this project in this article, as I’m going to delay it.

The problem with this project and the reason why I delay it (maybe some month or years) is that I realized that I lack the knowledge of creating and implementing programming languages. I’ve never developed a real Turing complete programming language before, but writing the real POOL implementation is such a hugh project that it’s probably better that I gained experience in this field before attempting it again. It’s a pity that I can’t implement it within the next couple of months as I developed POOL in my mind for about half a year.

What I currently have programmed for the POOL project are two failing attempts to write a grammar and a rough draft of a byte code interpreter (aka virtual machine). I’ve spend dozens of days for this attempts and drafts – but there are no real results. And that’s the real reason why I delay this project: I’m working hours and hours without any substantial progress – that’s really demotivating – and the probability that this project therefore fails after hundreds of hours of developing is high.

But what am I going to do next? I’m addicted to writing compilers, parsers and interpreters for unknown languages, but instead of starting another huge project like POOL, I’m going to start many little projects that don’t last  that long.

One of this project’s is OrangeLang a cool project about a minimal language with focus on the complier. I’ll post an article on this blog when the project has more than a rugh compiler draft. (That has been also a difficulty with POOL: I wrote several articles and talked with people about it without having anything to show)