Interpreter etc questions
- Posted by Tom Eklöf <eu-list at GNWMAIL.COM> Jul 22, 1999
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Since I'm not in the least bit capable of logic or anything resembling it, I'll have to ask You, the Euphorian community about this: How would I go about programming an interpreter for a scripting language/programming language? The only such thing I've done was, *shudder*, XProL. Although it was fun to hack together, it wasn't really the epitome of interpreters, or anything for that matter. Since I seriously exhibit the same kind of lunacy as Donald R. Woods and James M. Lyon and the people at Cat's Eye Technologies (Funges, Orthogonal, etc), I've always wanted to write a programming language that is rather original and, if nothing else, halfway Turing-complete. The problem is I'm not much of a programmer and I have no sense of logic whatsoever :) (Kind of hinders my chances, huh?) And please don't tell me to look at X's example of an interpreter, I'd just get compelled to slightly modify the code and steal it outright. Just give me some guidelines, etc please. I'm begging you! If I fail miserably I'll flush Euphoria down the toilet and go back to Perl again. At least the slightly messy regexps simplify my life, IF I'd remember to comment my code ;) --Tom A.K.A. The developer of several unpublished abominations and other funnies, much like XProL and DEATHBUNNY (which was actually halfway finished by me just a while ago, in Perl :). ---- Get your free email at http://www.gnwmail.com