Re: Interpreter design

Juan Carlos Gil Montoro <jcgil@gmv.es>
19 Jan 2001 23:21:24 -0500

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From: Juan Carlos Gil Montoro <jcgil@gmv.es>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 19 Jan 2001 23:21:24 -0500
Organization: GMV SA
References: 01-01-059 01-01-075
Keywords: interpreter, design
Posted-Date: 19 Jan 2001 23:21:24 EST

Basile STARYNKEVITCH wrote:
> If you do want to make a new langage, first study lots of existing
> languages and existing implementations....
>
> In short, the best strategy to implement an interpreter is to not do
> it.
>
> Perhaps you could use or extend an existing implementation... Why not
> use Ocaml, Scheme, Tcl, Python, Perl, Ruby, etc....?


    Thanks for the advice but I do need to create a special-purpose language.


> Do you need to embed an interpreter inside an application (or do the
> reverse: embed your application inside an interpreter).


    My aplication must run programs in that language, pause them, abort
    them, you get the idea.


> Perhaps you could translate your language to an existing bytecode
> interpeter (such as Ocaml's, or JVM, or VSCM, ....).


    But then I would not have the fine control over running programs that
    I need, in particular I must be able to pause and resume running programs.


Juan Carlos---

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