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JLOX

Intro to Writing Interpreters

JLOX is a dynamically typed and interpreted language. The JLOX interpreter is completely developed in Java following the book Crafting Interpreters

Parts of an Interpreter

  • Scanning

    Also known as lexical analysis. Chunks the linear stream of characters to tokens for the language.

  • Parsing

    Similar to a grammer check for our language

  • Static Analysis

    Processes involving binding and scoping.

  • Middle End

    Storing the code as an intermediate representation

  • Code Generation

    Converting the intermediate code to run on the specific architecture

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