Subj : Re: How-to on writing an interpreter?
To   : comp.programming
From : Jon Harrop
Date : Mon Jul 18 2005 09:23 pm

Flavius Vespasianus wrote:
> The basic process is to define the language and to define the
> intermediate structure to be interpreted. The latter will be symbol
> tables and trees/graphs representing the code to execute.  (OO languages,
> such as C++ are EXTREMELY well suited for such applications)

No. OO languages like C++ are better than C but still much worse than
languages designed for interpreter and compiler writing, like ML (e.g.
OCaml, SML).

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Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy
http://www.ffconsultancy.com

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