From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: interpreting C ???
Date: 7 Mar 2001 12:03:30 GMT
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Rudolf Polzer <rpolzer AT web DOT de> wrote:
> Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de> schrieb Folgendes:
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>> By nature, C is not a very interpreter-friendly language. Elements
>> that cause this include the preprocessor, complicated data structures,
>                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> maybe...
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> QBasic, an _OLD_ BASIC interpreter, supports them.

Up to and including pointers, dynamic memory allocation, 11 basic
numeric datatypes, and unions? I don't recall my short time of QBasic
coding very well, but I don't think it had all those.

>> I'd recommend a text book on compiler construction and the
>> comp.compilers newsgroup (they deal with interpreters, too, despite of
>> the name).

> Why a C interpreter? 

I don't know. The OP didn't provide any rationale.

But the real question would be: if an interpreter, why one for C, of
all all possible languages?
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
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