This is a one-file compiler for an intentionally minimal language. It is meant to show to students that implementing a compiler need not be a scary affair: it can be done in a couple hundred lines of code in a friendly language like Python.

minilang.py reads a mini program from stdin and outputs an equivalent C program on stdout, which can then be fed into a C compiler such as gcc:

$ python minilang.py < demos/fib.mini | gcc -x c -o /tmp/fib -
$ /tmp/fib

minilang.py should work with either Python 2 or Python 3.