From: Mushfeq Khan <mushfeq.khan@...>
Date: 2007-04-09T06:35:56+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] How to write a toy interpreter.

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A toy interpreter is part of the test suite for Dhaka (a parser generator -
http://dhaka.rubyforge.org). There's even a page documenting the interesting
bits:

http://dhaka.rubyforge.org/chittagong.html

The whole interpreter is about 300 lines of code.

Mushfeq.

On 4/8/07, Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 02:37:46AM +0900, Pedro Del Gallego wrote:
> > I was reading today this post [1], and i would like to write my own
> > toy interpreter. The simplest example possible (with or without ruby).
> >
> > Can anyone recommend me some start points ? (URLs, tutorials, or books )
>
> An excellent book for everything about language parsing and code
> generation
> is "Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools"
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compilers:_Principles,_Techniques,_and_Tools
>
>

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