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Marvin · Jul 19th, 2006, 6:19 AM

I hope you know what you are letting yourself in for. Just trying to write a language interpeter is a hell of a task. Make sure you know the exact specifiaction of Befunge 93 and have some programs written in it to test your interpreter.

Extending Befunge 93 without breaking the backwards comaptibility will be hard. Why not just create a new language based on Befunge 93 so then you wont have to worry about makeing a standard Befunge 93 program work on it.

Have you seen how bad Befunge is to actually program in. Its nearly as bad as Ook!. Wikipedia quote "is a stack-based, reflective, esoteric fungeoid programming language." Sounds like hell if you ask me. Why not create a Pascal or BASIC interpreter, this is more documented, far more conventional and you can still make it your own dialect.

Good luck with it.

Jul 19th, 2006, 6:19 AM	#6
Marvin Newbie Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Heart of Gold Posts: 23 Rep Power: 0	I hope you know what you are letting yourself in for. Just trying to write a language interpeter is a hell of a task. Make sure you know the exact specifiaction of Befunge 93 and have some programs written in it to test your interpreter. Extending Befunge 93 without breaking the backwards comaptibility will be hard. Why not just create a new language based on Befunge 93 so then you wont have to worry about makeing a standard Befunge 93 program work on it. Have you seen how bad Befunge is to actually program in. Its nearly as bad as Ook!. Wikipedia quote "is a stack-based, reflective, esoteric fungeoid programming language." Sounds like hell if you ask me. Why not create a Pascal or BASIC interpreter, this is more documented, far more conventional and you can still make it your own dialect. Good luck with it. __________________ "Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without trying to invent any more of it."