Jeffrey@office-6 (04/30/83)
I need some help putting together a quick and dirty translator
for a basic-like application language (custom language).
The langauge will have commands similar to those of Basic including
GOTO xxx
where xxx is a label on one of the commands in the "program" being
translated.
Most of the other commands are straight forward sorts which begin with
a command name and may have some arguments separated by commas:
COMMAND-NAME arg1, arg2, ...
where most of the arguments are numeric, symbolic, or selector
(e.g. YES | NO) type things.
Some fo the arguments will be multiline text literals.
What I am looking for is any code that I could hack into
a reasonable translator for this language. By the way,
the output of the translator will be an intermediate
form representation of the input suitable for interpretation
by a runtime package.
I am hoping to write the translator in C (BDS or Lattice) but would
go with some other language if I found a very nice box of code
to hackup.
All suggestions will be aprreciated. Please send them directly to
me (jeffrey@office).
thanks very much,
Jeffrey Stone
Menlo Park, Ca.
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