[OT] How to write a toy interpreter

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Hi,

I was reading today this post [1], and i would like to write my own
toy interpreter. The simplest example possible (with or without ruby).

Can anyone recommend me some start points ? (URLs, tutorials, or books )

Thanks.

[1] : http://code.google.com/p/cat-language/wiki/HowTheInterpreterWorks

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Pedro Del Gallego

Email : pedro.delgallego@gmail.com

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An excellent book for everything about language parsing and code generation
is "Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools"

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On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 02:37:46AM +0900, Pedro Del Gallego wrote:

I was reading today this post [1], and i would like to write my own
toy interpreter. The simplest example possible (with or without ruby).

Can anyone recommend me some start points ? (URLs, tutorials, or books )

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A toy interpreter is part of the test suite for Dhaka (a parser generator -
http://dhaka.rubyforge.org). There's even a page documenting the interesting
bits:

http://dhaka.rubyforge.org/chittagong.html

The whole interpreter is about 300 lines of code.

Mushfeq.

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On 4/8/07, Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com> wrote:

On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 02:37:46AM +0900, Pedro Del Gallego wrote:
> I was reading today this post [1], and i would like to write my own
> toy interpreter. The simplest example possible (with or without ruby).
>
> Can anyone recommend me some start points ? (URLs, tutorials, or books )

An excellent book for everything about language parsing and code
generation
is "Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools"
Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools - Wikipedia