Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!ccu.umanitoba.ca!salomon From: salomon@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Dan Salomon) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: why arent there any c-interpreter ? Keywords: c interpreter Message-ID: <1990Dec4.215513.19325@ccu.umanitoba.ca> Date: 4 Dec 90 21:55:13 GMT References: <3303@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> <6396@harrier.ukc.ac.uk> Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada Lines: 18 In article <6396@harrier.ukc.ac.uk> dac@ukc.ac.uk (David Clear) writes: >In article <3303@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> admerlev@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Arnd Merlevede ) writes: >>i would like to know why there aren't any c-interprters out there. >>it would be nice to test small pieces of code interactively... > >HiSoft in the UK do a C interpreter for the Atari ST. That proves they exist. > >I think interpreting C is as close to blasphemy as you can get with a >programming language. Don't get too overheated. Afterall the C-shell command language is interpreted, and it is advertised as a more C-like command language than the Bourne shell. -- Dan Salomon -- salomon@ccu.UManitoba.CA Dept. of Computer Science / University of Manitoba Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3T 2N2 / (204) 275-6682 Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com