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From: vrm@blackwater.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu (Vasile R. Montan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Shell of an interpreter wanted
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Date: 17 Dec 90 15:46:18 GMT
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I recently posted a request for hints on writing an interpreter.
Someone suggested that I not start from scratch, but rather begin
with the shell of an interpreter which somebody else has already
written.  This would save me an incredible amount of work, since
I have very little idea how to write an interpreter.

If someone has the shell of an interpreter which includes the
major parts of a language (looping, branching, parsing, variable
management, etc.) into which I could add my own commands, would
you consider sending me a copy?  I am working in Pascal, although
this would be such a boon that I would try to learn C if some C
code were available.

I want the interpreter for a 'build-it-yourself' kind of program,
a kind of a very specialized Hypercard.  I want to be able to
have the user's scripts respond to various things that happen.

Thank you very much!

--Kurisuto (who is not Vasile)
un020070@vaxa.wvnet.edu