An interpreter is a computer program which directly executes instructions written in a programming language.

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Mini BF interpreter

Many Brainfuck implementations I've come across generally are obtuse, verbose or over-the-top. But I've always seen Brainfuck as "easy to implement", especially for beginners. My original need for ...
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Brainfuck Interpreter in Java

Description To increase the awareness of my previous brainfuck question here's also a brainfuck interpreter. This is written with Java 8 Class Summary (298 lines in 4 files, making a total of 7409 ...
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Reference Implementation for Honey Badger programming language

I've been working on my own dynamically-typed, dynamically-scoped, imperative programming language called Honey Badger and feel that it's reached a stable enough state that I want someone else's eyes ...
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“Nothing” interpreter/compiler

This is an implementation of the Nothing programming language. The language spec is as follows: Design philosophy In the current software industry focus lays on solving complex problems by ...
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Reverse Polish Notation in F#

In my question to learn F#, I've decided to get one step closer to creating a programming language, and implement this simple Reverse Polish Notation "interpreter" of sorts. It does not allow for ...
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Simple local source control - Part 2

I've refactored the previous version of my local source control, and revised a few things. It's mostly the same, but there are a few minor differences, like the argument separator, one new command, ...
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Simple local source control

I've written my own local "source control". Rather than using a commit-based system, when you're ready to release a version, you can run a command which will create a ...
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Drawing the appropriate shapes onto JFrames

To write a Java class that reads through a text file of drawing commands and draws the appropriate shapes onto JFrames, I have input instructions as follows: ...
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Brainfuck interpreter in Clojure

I'm currently learning Clojure to try to get a good understanding of functionnal programming, so I wrote this brainfuck interpreter that takes a filename on the command line. I tried to make it as ...
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TI-BASIC interpreter for Fishstacks

Fishstacks is a deadfish derivative based on a stack the stack can only hold four elements when a fifth element is pushed the bottom element is kicked out and eventually printed out to the screen. ...
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Abstract syntax tree for simple Lisp-like interpreter

A week or so ago, I wrote a binary expression calculator with the hope of better understanding how interpreters and compilers work. In the same vein, I've tried to write a lisp like language ...
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Brainfuck interpreter in F#

I have some concerns, like the updateValue function. I was trying to follow the functional paradigm, but I wonder if I could use another approach or something. My ...
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NotBF - A Brainfuck-ish like “language”

I've made an interpreted language that's like Brainfuck except it has keywords instead of characters. Here's an explanation of the commands, and how to run it. ...
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Brainfuck interpreter (with emphasis on robustness)

While writing a review of @MotokoKusanagi's Brainfuck interpreter, I decided to write my own implementation to illustrate a few points. In particular, I'd like it to be robust to malformed programs, ...
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Brainf*** Interpreter in C

I posted a question on Stack Overflow regarding this program. I ended up pretty much rewriting everything to get what is posted here. This turned into a two-day long project. I've been using Python ...
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Rust Brainfuck interpreter

I took the code from kostyas benchmarks for the Rust Brainfuck interpreter and tried to optimize it. There is also a discussion on Reddit about the poor performance of Rust in the Benchmark. Before ...
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JediScript - May the 4th be with you

In honor of Star Wars day, I've put together this small Python program I'm calling JediScript. JediScript is essentially a scrapped-down version of BrainFuck without input or looping. Here are the ...
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Brainfuck interpreter in C

This is my bare-bones Brainfuck interpreter in C using lots of unixisms. What improvements can I make (with respect to the clarity of code, or obvious features to add)? ...
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Another Brainfuck interpreter in Haskell

I came up with the following Brainfuck interpreter in Haskell after thinking about how to represent the program and the memory functionally using zippers to represent current location. This works ...
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Brainfuck on-the-fly interpreter in C++

I was bored yesterday morning, so I wrote a brainfuck interpreter. I know there are a lot, but this one is different. Why? Because it evaluates brainfuck code on the fly, reading from the input file, ...
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BrainFuck Interpreter in C++

Generic Headers #include <vector> #include <string> #include <iostream> #include <fstream> typedef std::string const BFProgram; ...
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Calculator with significant figures

I'm writing a small scientific programming language, and I thought my first step would be to write a calculator with built in significant figures. I wrote this with JParsec for the lexing and parsing. ...
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Preparing interpreter for error-handling

This is a follow-up to the question that I posted earlier regarding my interpreter. After a lot of help, I refactored my code and added more functionality to it. Now, it allows users to declare ...
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Brainfuck interpreter in Haskell

Okay, so I just started learning Haskell around a week ago and this is my first real program that I worked on all of yesterday with a lot of help from IRC. I know that using indicies and arrays is not ...
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Basic math interpreter

Essentially what I've done here is written an Interpreter that takes in Python math, such as this, 23 ** 374748, and prints out the result. This program relies on ...
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Random “programming language”

I decided to write my own programming language, of sorts. Essentially, you write code into a text file and the program will run the code inside the text file. The file is provided through a script ...
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Basic Brainfuck interpreter (part 2)

I have this obsession with esoteric programming languages. So I decided to spiff up my previous Brainfuck interpreter. ...
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Brainfuck interpreter in JavaScript, take 2

The previous version is here. This version takes suggestions from that review into account: brainfuck is now an object instead of a function, and ...
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Brainfuck interpreter in JavaScript

Just what it says on the tin: a brainfuck interpreter in JavaScript. ...
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Basic BrainFuck interpreter

I was bored, so I wrote a BrainFuck interpreter in Python. It essentially takes input for the amount of cells, then parses the inputted code through a series of if ...
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Primitive stack-based code interpreter

I've written an interpreter for a simple assembly-like language and it's performing slower than I would like. It's split into 3 files: the Parser that converts the source to a vector of ints, the VM ...
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Four-function expression evaluator

I've been making an interpreter for my own programming language that I've been working on as a hobby. I made an expression evaluator that can evaluate simple mathematical expressions. It understands ...
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Virtual machine using RPython and PyPy

I'm writing a virtual machine in Python using RPython and the PyPy toolchain. The RPython will still work in the ordinary Python 2 interpreter, it's just a bit slow unless it's compiled to C code with ...
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Making my own programming language

This question is really to help me decide on something. I have started development of my own programming language that I am calling DeliciousWaffle (or maybe samscript). So far it looks pretty cool. ...
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A stack-based language interpreter in Haskell

Here is a little interpreter I wrote for a simple stack-based language. It is my first attempt at a complete Haskell program, beyond glorified calculator use. I'd like very much to get an expert's ...
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Brainfuck Interpreter

I want to write an example for a language similar to Haskell called Frege. While the interpreter is conceptually easy, it is lengthy and looks still quite messy. Note that I don't want to use Parsec ...
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Simple Language Interpreter

I've been playing around with Python off and on for about the past year and recently came up with the following 68 (was 62) lines. I think I'll try making a calculator out of it. I'd really like to ...