Re: Advice needed: book on interpreter construction

ibmstuff@sccsi.com writes in article 95-12-157:
>
> I need to write a simple interpreter and a language as part of a
> database conversion program. The language will be used to define the
> source database, reporting, error handling, target format, etc. I'm
> looking for a good book that deals with interpreters--I've got several
> compiler books but they aren't really much help. A book with example
> code (even fragments) would be very useful as I'm in a big hurry.


Rexx has a defined API so it can be a bolt-on script language (ref:
'The Rexx Language' 2nd ed by Mike Cowlishaw, Prentice Hall). It's a
string-manipulation language so can do anything at a pinch. That might
be the quickest solution since it already has built-in error handling
etc.


'The UNIX Programming Environment' by Kernighan & Pike, Prentice Hall,
has a worked example of how to make an interpreter, including C code.


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Yours, Patrick
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Patrick Herring, Primrose Hill, London, UK
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