Subj : Re: How-to on writing an interpreter?
To   : comp.programming
From : osmium
Date : Mon Jul 18 2005 01:38 pm

"Rob Thorpe" writes:
>> 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)
>
> Actually I can't think of anything less useful for contructing trees
> than OO.  It can be done very simply using procedural programming.

For one tree, fine.  But what if you want several trees in one program?  Or 
want to write a tree once and be done with it, i.e., keep reusing the same 
tree logic in several programs?

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