Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!brunix!Andrew From: Andrew Gilmartin Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: How to write a scripting language Summary: exTalk Message-ID: <59431@brunix.UUCP> Date: 14 Dec 90 13:33:39 GMT References: <1077@babcock.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu> Sender: news@brunix.UUCP Reply-To: andrew@brownvm.brown.edu Organization: Brown University Lines: 16 In article pete@csc-sun.mckinsey.com (Peter Gaston) writes: >Start with Lex and Yacc. These are standard unix tools. I have used >MacYacc in the past, and MPW has variants as well. After that, it >should be pretty application dependent... Rather than starting from scratch, use an existing scripting language. The most obvious is xlisp by David Betz. The code is very portable, well tested, and available from many archive sites. In addition to xlisp Betz has written xscheme and ExTalk. ExTalk is specificly designed as an "embedded languaged." I found ExTalk on Byte's bboard. Good luck. -- Andrew Gilmartin (andrew@brownvm.brown.edu)