Re: Techniques for writing an interpreter

>>>>> "O" == Orlando Llanes <a010111t@bc.seflin.org> writes:


O> What if the script language had built-in parsers for Pascal and
O> C, and a utility similar to Lex/Yacc was distributed with the
O> interpreter, would it be a more useful language?


That was the Guile dream, but it seems to have disappeared, at least
temporarily. If you can manage it, I'm sure the FSF would be quite
pleased!


O> [... Scripting languages are usually used for
O> relatively small programs that glue together large existing pieces
O> of stuff, so you want high-level data structures and a syntax that
O> lets you write two-line scripts in two lines, if that's all the
O> script you happen to need. If we want C or Pascal, we know where
O> to find them. -John]


Not necessarily. The newsreader I'm using is an example of an
application written in a scripting language. Tcl/Tk apparently has
had enough success to have more than minimal applications written in
it.
--
Alan Shutko <shutkoa@ugsolutions.com> - (314) 344-5214
[See comments on scripting language design a couple of messages from now.
I wouldn't disagree with your comments, though. -John]




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