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| Interpreter design jcgil@gmv.es (Juan Carlos Gil Montoro) (2001-01-11) |
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| Re: Interpreter design gvmt@localhost.vsnl.net.in (Venkatesha Murthy) (2001-01-19) |
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| From: | "Venkatesha Murthy" <gvmt@localhost.vsnl.net.in> |
| Newsgroups: | comp.compilers |
| Date: | 19 Jan 2001 23:17:21 -0500 |
| Organization: | Compilers Central |
| Keywords: | design, architecture |
| Posted-Date: | 19 Jan 2001 23:17:21 EST |
Kevin Szabo wrote:
> Kernighan and Pike's book 'The unix programming environment'
> has an exercise where you build an interpreter called 'HOC'.
> Good book, well worth the read.
But then HOC was amenable to a stack computer. Is every interpreted
language that way? Runnable on a stack computer? Also, the exercise is
more an exercise in YACC, tho' the interpreter aspect is very useful
also. But I agree it's a good book; esp. the HOC part.
Venkatesh
[I've seen a lot of stack-based interpreters. They're easy to write,
regardless of the underlying machine's architecture. -John]
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