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- From: bsullivn@sc.sni.ie (Bryan O'Sullivan)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: generic interpreter
- Message-ID: <162@sc.sni.ie>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 09:33:18 GMT
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- References: <DAVIS.92Aug17105356@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu>
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- davis@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu (John E. Davis) writes:
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- : I am looking for an extensible interpreter (preferably in C). I want an
- : interpreter which has all the code in it for while loops, if then statements,
- : etc. All I need to do is to add the `intrinsic' (in C) functions which the
- : interpreter will eventually call. This seems like such a useful generic thing
- : that someone must have done it already. If such a thing exists, I would
- : appreciate about hearing about it.
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- Try taking a look at either John Ousterhout's (ouster@sprite.berkeley.edu)
- Tcl language or Guido von Rossum's (guido@cwi.nl) Python. The former looks
- a little like a cross between C and LISP, and seems to be very nicely
- built. I've only read a couple of papers on the latter, and it doesn't
- appeal to me quite as much.
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- -- Bryan
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