C language interpreter

[F. Deravi Elec. Eng.]

This is a summary of the replies I recieved to my maiden article:

> Is there a C language interpreter anywhere in the World ?

May be I was hoping that someone would send me the sources for
an interpreter. But nothing as good as that happened.

Sue-Ken Yap at Rochester pointed out the ambiguity in the notion of
an interpreter. "Tiny C" compiles to an intermediate code and then interprets
this. Is this the Real Thing ?

Eric C. Brown at Utah and Vincent Gonzalez at teddy(!) mentioned Instant-C,
a product for IBM-PC by Rational Systems Inc. (POB 480, Natick, Mass. 01760).
Priced at about $500 with claimed source code to execution time of 3 seconds.

dfi at ihufx suggested that 'awk' may be considered as a C interpreter !!
Michael Jones at North Carolina had the most reassuring reply:

> Yes there is.

I would be grateful for further information and comments about C interpreters,
their possible utility and problems that may be associated with writing them.


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