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From: fbur...@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Francis Burton)
Date: 1996/11/10
Subject: Re: Want to get started - would like to write a simple interpreter
In <96-11-...@comp.compilers> Norman Hilton <nor...@kbss.bt.co.uk> writes: >: I want to write an interpreter for a very simple language. I bought this book on the basis of a recommendation I saw on Usenet >: Can anyone give me some pointers on where to find the kind of >: information I want? >Try "Constructing Language Processors For Little Languages" by Randy >M. Kaplan, published by John Wiley and Sons Inc., ISBN 0-471-59754-6. >I have it but have not read it yet. (probably comp.compilers) and a review at http://frey.newcastle.edu.au/~acjbooks/Reviews/b675.r.nro and frankly I was a little disappointed. I felt it didn't go deeply into the subject at all, saying very little about the different ways of handling flow control in interpreters (something which I had grappled with myself in constructing my own "little language"). The book suffered from the common fault of presenting too much code and too little discursive material, at least in the chapters about the image manipulation language. The code (disk not included) would have been more useful if it had been tailored less to the specific application, i.e. if a more general interpreter framework (with flow control!) had been presented. However, I appreciate the author's choice was for sound didactic reasons, and overall I think the book is a reasonable introductory-level text. If you really want to learn about elegance and power in the design of Francis You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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