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LIL: The Little Interpreted Language
- ChuckMcM 11y agoWe wrote an interpreter in the sophomore level CS class at USC called SIMP. It was great fun and you realize that once you figure out how to write a function interpreter you're pretty much done. (everything else is pretty straightforward). I strongly recommend anyone looking for a deeper understanding of computers write an interpreter of their own design.
- zserge 11y agoI like the language and we actually have been using it in production a couple of years ago. It was really easy to write extensions (like plain old C functions). Later we've moved to Lua because of the performance and because the code in LIL quickly became unreadable. But the language is really nice, very similar to TCL. I wish it got more attention.
- ufo 11y agoFrom these short examples I don't really get how its different from TCL.
- __michaelg 11y agoObligatory reference to Jim Tcl (http://jim.tcl.tk/ http://jim.tcl.tk/), which is a small footprint Tcl interpreter. Probably still bigger than LIL.