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From: Andrew Gilmartin
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Subject: Re: Shell of an interpreter wanted
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Date: 17 Dec 90 17:41:34 GMT
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In article <1115@babcock.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu> vrm@blackwater.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu
(Vasile R. Montan) writes:

>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?

ExTalk is available for anonymous FTP from brownvm.brown.edu. Once,
connected, cd to "andrew.1a0".

Note: interpreting the code that is not hard, but managing variables
of different data types is.

> 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.

Wirth's Algorithms + Data Structues = Programs has pascal code for
a pascal like language. The chapter is quite lucid, however the
book's code tends to be obscure and often buggy.