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- From: softbase@mercury.interpath.net (Scott McMahan - Softbase Systems)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: C++ Interpreter (source): Where?
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- Date: 5 Mar 1996 13:22:06 GMT
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- Ajay Kumar Gummadi (ajay@ee.tamu.edu) wrote:
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- : For languages like c and C++, you get compilers not interpretors.
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- That's not true -- C is fairly easy to interpret. I know of 2
- interpreters, and I'm sure there are more. C is very elegant and
- consistent -- it isn't hard to parse. I wouldn't develop commercial
- software with a C interpreter, but they're a lot of fun and very
- educational if you ever have to write interpreting or parsing code.
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- C++ is a different matter. I'm sure it is possible to write an
- interpreter for it, but with constructors, destructors, virtual
- functions, and the C++ emphasis on dynamic allocation instead of static
- it would be very, very hard. C++ is complex to begin with -- C has a
- lot less things to interpret than C++. I've never heard of a C++
- interpreter.
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- Scott
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