Python Lex-Yacc (PLY) [1] is a parser-generator that can be used to quickly write an interpreter for a programming language. I’ve recently written a Basic interpreter over a weekend. The talk will cover how the usual statements are implemented and give particular attention to expression parsing. The takeaway is that it might be easy to quickly implement a domain specific language or a “real” programming language.

The obvious question: “WTF: Why Basic?” will also be answered during the talk.

The Basic interpreter Yabasi (Yet Another Basic Interpreter) is available on github and pypi [2][3].

[1] Python Lex-Yacc by David M. Beazley

https://www.dabeaz.com/ply/ply.html

[2] Yet Another Basic Interpreter: Yabasi on github

https://github.com/schlatterbeck/yabasi

[3] Yet Another Basic Interpreter: Yabasi on pypi

https://pypi.org/project/yabasi/