# Elna programming language

Elna is a simple, imperative, low-level programming language.

It is intendet to accompany other languages in the areas, where a high-level
language doesn't fit well. It is also supposed to be an intermediate
representation for a such high-level hypothetical programming language.

## File extension

.elna

## Current implementation

This repository contains a GCC frontend for Elna. After finishing the frontend
I'm planning to rewrite the compiler in Elna itself with its own backend and
a hand-written parser. So GCC gives a way to have a simple bootstrap compiler
and a possbility to compile Elna programs for different platforms.

## Grammar

Flex and bison grammar specifications, `lexer.ll` and `parser.yy`, can be found
in the `boot/` directory.