Re: Techniques for writing an interpreter

On 20 Mar 1998 23:48:17 -0500, Orlando Llanes <a010111t@bc.seflin.org>
wrote:
><snipped stuff about using Pascal and C as script languages in the same product>
>[Sounds to me like that would make it utterly unusable. It's bad
>enough with Javascript and VBscript in the MS web browser. Scripting
>languages are usually used for relatively small programs that glue
>together large existing pieces of stuff, so you want high-level data
>structures and a syntax that lets you write two-line scripts in two
>lines, if that's all the script you happen to need. If we want C or
>Pascal, we know where to find them. -John]


But the venerable Brief editor (on DOS) had both "LISP-like" and
"C-like" macro languages. You had to compile these, so one assumes
they were interpreted by the same interpreter. And "Brief C" was quite
well-received.
[Now that you mention it, Epsilon, my favorite DOS/Windows text editor has
a C-flavored extension language, too. Hmmn. -John]


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