Re: Techniques for writing an interpreter

On Fri, 20 Mar 1998, Mark Harrison wrote:
> I think that Scheme faces an uphill battle as a generally accepted
> ...
> unpleasant to use.


        What if the script language had built-in parsers for Pascal and C, and
a utility similar to Lex/Yacc was distributed with the interpreter, would
it be a more useful language? I ask because I want to design an
interpreter with multiple front-ends that can be chosen at run-time that
are linked to the program code which have a common back-end.


See ya!
Orlando Llanes
[Sounds to me like that would make it utterly unusable. It's bad
enough with Javascript and VBscript in the MS web browser. Scripting
languages are usually used for relatively small programs that glue
together large existing pieces of stuff, so you want high-level data
structures and a syntax that lets you write two-line scripts in two
lines, if that's all the script you happen to need. If we want C or
Pascal, we know where to find them. -John]


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