[LRUG] Talk offer: An interpreter written in Ruby

[Tim Cowlishaw]

Ooh, yes please!


Cheers,

Tim

On 22 Jun 2010, at 17:27, Jon Leighton wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I used to come to LRUG a few years back, and I'm hoping to start coming
> again on a regular basis.
> 
> As people are talking about talks, I have a suggestion. I'm genuinely
> not sure if it will be of interest to people, so just asking for
> thoughts really.
> 
> Basically, I have just finished my uni degree. In the third year you are
> required to do some sort of project, which makes up a third of the
> year's work. I ended up writing an interpreter, in Ruby, for a language
> heavily inspired by Ruby. A sort of distilled Ruby-like language which
> is far too simplistic to be useful and probably overlooks tonnes of
> important things.
> 
> But anyway! The point is not really that the language is utterly
> pointless. The point is that it's an interpreter written in a very
> high-level language, which I think it relatively easy to understand.
> 
> So I'm offering to do a talk which would take the listener through the
> workings of this interpreter. The parsing is done with Treetop, although
> I wouldn't propose really talking about the parsing at all as I think a
> lot of people are quite familiar with Treetop.
> 
> Here are some links if you're interested:
> 
> * Code: http://github.com/jonleighton/carat
> * Project report: http://dump.jonathanleighton.com/project.pdf (Note
> this is written very much with a view to saying the right things to
> satisfy an examiner, rather than with a view to being interesting to
> Ruby hackers)
> 
> I might as well finish with some buzzwords. If you ever wondered what
> "trampoline function" or "continuation passing style" means then this is
> your chance :)
> 
> Cheers,
> Jon
> 
> -- 
> http://jonathanleighton.com/
> 
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