On 14 June, 00:07, bolega <gnuist...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am trying to compare LISP/Scheme/Python for their expressiveness. > > For this, I propose a vanilla C interpreter. I have seen a book which > writes C interpreter in C. > > The criteria would be the small size and high readability of the code. > > Are there already answers anywhere ? > > How would a gury approach such a project ? > > Bolega
Probably you want to look at this thread http://groups.google.co.uk/group/comp.lang.lisp/browse_frm/thread/7b1ab36f5d5cce0a/54afe11153025e27?hl=en&lnk=gst&q=minim#54afe11153025e27 where I specified a toy language Minim (much simpler than C) and the goal was to construct an interpreter for it. Similar problem. Many solutions were given in different languages. The thread is very long. One thing you might look at is whether some sort of lexer/parser is supported in any of your targets. Qi supports a compiler-compiler Qi- YACC that allows you to write in BNF which makes this kind of project much easier. See http://www.lambdassociates.org/Book/page404.htm for an overview Mark -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list