So I've created a "compiled" language (Halppp) so I wanted to see if I could use it to create an interpreted language.

Using the previous knowledge of building the compiler, for the language I'm now building the interpreter in, helped a lot since I know what parts I needed to parse the input. Since the compiler is self compiled it's also easy to reuse design parts from it.

I started Saturday and got it in a working state Today(Sunday). Still a lot of features missing but usable for something minor.

let a = "Hello"
let b = "World"
b = b + "!"
print RED + a + " " + b + "!" + RESET

filer "ver.txt" version
tonum version
print GREEN + "Version: " + RESET + version 
print "Update version? " + YELLOW + "(y/n)" + RESET
printnobr RED + "> " + RESET
read input
if input == "y"
    | version = version + 0.1
    | print GREEN + "Updated version to: " + RESET + version
    | filew "ver.txt" version

exit

Features

• assign variables
• concat strings
• mathematical operation
• conditional branching
• colored printing
• reassign variables
• read/write files
• syscalls
• functions
• loops
• lists
• input arguments

The syntax design

I wanted a simple design with no fancy stuff

• single line statments
• not identation dependent