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Let's Build a Compiler: Tiny Kiss in iForth. A tribute to this great article series by Jack W.

Let's Build a Compiler: Tiny Kiss in iForth

Crenshaw... Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Expression parsing Chapter 3 More Expressions Chapter 4 Interpreters Chapter 5 Control Constructs Chapter 6 Boolean Expressions Chapter 7 Lexical Scanning Chapter 8 A Little Philosophy Chapter 9 A Top View Chapter 10 Introducing "Tiny" Chapter 11 Lexical Scan Revisited Chapter 12 Miscellany Chapter 13 Procedures Chapter 14 Types Chapter 15 Back to the Future Chapter 16 Unit Construction Chapter 17 2006 Forth wrapup Comments on the Web Edition Jack W.

Crenshaw wrote the Let's Build a Compiler article series from 1988 - 1995. The text files were downloaded from They are highly recommended. In this transcript I have assumed a 32-bit, byte-addressing Forth, with 8-bit characters. Comments appreciated: c/o Marcel Hendrix - mhx@iae.nl <a href=" title="Flash Counter">Flash Counter</a> Codepad. IDE Toolbox: 70+ IDEs for Developers. For developing cool applications you need an Integrated Development Environment, also called an IDE.

IDE Toolbox: 70+ IDEs for Developers

Here's our list of 70+ IDEs for developers and all our geek readers who like to try their hands at coding. Enjoy and Don’t forget to check out our post where you can suggest future toolbox topics! Anjuta C/C++ IDE - A dynamic C/C++ IDE with features including project management, interactive debugger and an editor for browsing and syntax highlighting. Runs on POSIX (Linux/BSD/UNIX-like OSes), Linux. BVRDE - A C/C++ Integrated Development Environment (IDE) primarily designed for easy cross-platform development.

C-Free - C-Free is a professional IDE offering support for multiple compilers including Cygwin, Borland C++ Compiler, Microsoft C+ Compiler, Open Watcom and Digital Mars. Code::Blocks - A free C++ IDE based on the plug-ins. CPPIDE - A complete integrated development environment for C/C++ environment with a source code editor, compiler and debugger. Java .NET Programming Python Ruby. C REPL. Update (March 2013): C-REPL was a neat hack, but a more principled implementation of the same goal exists in Cling.

C REPL

Many programming languages come with a REPL (read-eval-print loop), which allows you to type in code line by line and see what it does. This is quite useful for prototyping, experimentation, and debugging code. Other programming languages, and especially C, use a "compile-run" model, and don't provide a REPL. Let's fix that. What you get This approach is actually more of a read-eval loop, as c-repl doesn't know much about the types and parse trees of the code it's running. This means you can experiment with a new library without writing a test program or any bindings.

Some especially cute frosting features: - tab-completion of in-scope symbols - inspection of in-scope variables (via the .t command) Example Session Here's an example session demonstrating using c-repl: % . How to get and use it See GitHub, but c-repl is unmaintained and I don't recommend you use it.