This project refers to the development of the procedural programming language YAFL (Yet Another Free Language) as well as its interpreter. The programming language YAFL is a tool for teaching the basic principles of procedural programming to secondary school students and beginners in general.

This project is Free Software (software published under the GNU General Public License). If you wish to improve the interpreter or the programming language you are free to do so as long as you mention the original designers of this project.

Specifically, the interpreter of YAFL consists of the following subsystems:

  1. Lexical Analyzer
  2. Syntactical Analyzer
  3. Symbol Table
  4. Program Generator

I quote below a small program which, of course, does not perform any real function and exists only to show you some of the features supported by the YAFL.

/* program written in YAFL. */
program
  integer i, j, k, l;
start
  input j;
  k := 2**j;
  output k;

  i := !(2+4 >= 1) || !!(4 > 1);
  output i;

  i := !!!(!2+4);
  output i;

  i := 4;
  l := 6;

  /* swap values without temporary variable. */
  i := i ^ l;
  l := l ^ i;
  i := i ^ l;

  output i;
  output l;

  output 2|4&12;
  output 4 << 4;
  output 4^4;

  output !(3**2);

  i := 1;

  while i = 16 {
    if (i >= 5) {
      output i;
    }
    else {
      skip;
    };

    i := i+1;
  };
finish

For more information you can get the project itself:

`yet-another-free-language‘