Re: Compiler 101

"Nobodyzhome" <user_77@hotmail.com>
30 Jan 2005 13:59:59 -0500

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From: "Nobodyzhome" <user_77@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 30 Jan 2005 13:59:59 -0500
Organization: Road Runner High Speed Online http://www.rr.com
References: 05-01-067 05-01-086
Keywords: interpreter
Posted-Date: 30 Jan 2005 13:59:58 EST

"Jon Masterson" <news@scruffyduck.co.uk> wrote
> > [Our usual advice is first to look at existing scripting languages
> > such as python, Ruby, Lua, and TCL. ...
>
> Thanks for the advice but the simulator program that I need to control
> has very specific requirements and using any sort of pre-existing
> language would not be much help - I do not know of any that can
> describe a cloud layer or the state of an aircraft cockpit instruments
> in a single statement
>
> Jon
> [I don't see why not. Most of them have some sort of structure you can
> use. -John]


You can get Python to do what you want. You should look into it. It
would be a LOT less work than trying to learn how to write an
interpreter while writing an interpreter.


http://docs.python.org/ext/simpleExample.html

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