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

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Brainfuck Interpreter in JavaScript 3

I have this Brainfuck interpreter: ...
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MS-DOS style OS

This is a very basic text-based operating system I've been working on. I started working with python a few weeks ago and this project only a few days ago, so there are probably better ways I can do ...
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Implementing Multi-File Programs in Vitsy

I'm the proud owner of the Vitsy programming language, which I've been working on for some time (except recently, because high school). It's only been used in PPCG so far, but I hope to expand it to ...
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Read stdin like a dictator

Rags. Introduction All too often I find myself wanting to allow only a certain list of characters to be written to stdin, and only recently did I actually ...
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Golf some Code with A-Ray

For some of those in The 2nd Monitor, you know that I was creating a new golfing language. For one or two (@Quill), you have heard from me how tough it is. A-Ray (that's what it's called) is a ...
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Roman numerals with ANTLR

I've written a simple interpreter with ANTLR for evaluating Roman numerals. Here's the contents of the grammar file (Roman.g4): ...
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Constructing a simple shell from scratch

I'm actually doing my whole shell in C from scratch from a Linux computer. The thing is that I think we all do our best from creating the simplest things that can be explained easily. And I'm not sure ...
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Termios/Xterm line editor for APL interpreter

As an interesting sub-part of an interpreter -- just the Read part of the REPL -- I present my raw-mode line-oriented editor that I intend to use for my APL interpreter. (The Eval part has been posted ...
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BF Interpreter, Follow-up: ++;++; is now +=2;

Follow-up to: Brainfuck Interpreter: Slower than a Snail? Many improvements have been added, including: Remembering where the matching [ and ...
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BF#: Round 2 (Fight!)

So I've completely changed how BrainfuckSharp does things, and added some features. This is obviously a follow up to: Interpreting Brainfuck code to C#, then compiling to a .exe It now features an ...
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Brainfuck Interpreter: Slower than a Snail?

Inspired by FizzBuzz by Brainfuck, I decided to write an interpreter for Brainfuck. It: Removes all non-command characters Optimizes commands (removing +- and ...
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Simple interpreter for a golfing language

This is the seconds version of an interpreter yesterday. It's supposed to be used for code golf, but it currently can't do much. ...
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Very simple interpreter

I created a very simple interpreter in Python. It's capable of doing basic math (unfortunately with only two numbers), creating quines and printing text. ...
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Dynamic Language Interpreter in C#

This code interprets an abstract syntax tree generated by a recursive descent parser for a dynamic scripting language called Hassium. The syntax of this language looks like this ...
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Binary Bayes network classifier in Java - Part I/II - follow-up

TERMINOLOGY We are given a directed acyclic graph (dag) \$G = (V, A)\$, where \$V\$ is the set of nodes and \$A \subseteq V \times V\$ is the set of directed arcs, and a weight function \$p \colon V ...
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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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“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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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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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 (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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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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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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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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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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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 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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BrainFuck Interpreter in C++

Generic Headers #include <vector> #include <string> #include <iostream> #include <fstream> typedef std::string const BFProgram; ...
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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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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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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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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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Simple evaluator of Scheme-like expressions in Haskell

This is my first nontrivial Haskell program: ...
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...