Re: Good practical language and OS agnostic text?

BartC <bc@freeuk.com> wrote:
> Start with a very simple language. Perhaps even a version of Basic (as a
> useful language consisting of Let, If, Goto, Print (and perhaps Input) can
> be created without any structured statements; only expressions need
> recursive methods to deal with). You might consider also interpreting the
> language rather than translating to a target language. And use an easy,
> dynamic language to implement it all in. Stay away from C, C++, or anything
> else with curly braces.
>
> (Sorry, I can't recommend any books because I haven't read any...)


Another book of interest is


      P. J. Brown
      "Writing Interactive Compilers and Interpreters"
      (Wiley, 1981)


It's a completely non-mathematical (& pretty "basic", i.e., assuming
very little prior knowledge) tour through what's needed to write a
Basic interpreter.


--
-- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply]" <jthorn@astro.indiana-zebra.edu>
      Dept of Astronomy & IUCSS, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
[It's not a bad book. It's quite old, but you can usually find a copy in the
usual online used bookstores. -John]

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