Re: A minilanguage with the least effort?

The least effort is eval, which can be used to implement a mini-language called "Perl". (Note that this comes with security implications).

The second least effort is to use a CPAN module that implements a minilanguage.

Or of course you can write a parser for it (if it's really mini that's going to be easy) and a backend.

The exact approach varies greatly on what you actually want your minilanguage to do.

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Re^2: A minilanguage with the least effort? by clinton (Priest) on Feb 17, 2009 at 13:27 UTC
For a parser I wrote, have a look at How to parse a limited grammar and A parser for a limited grammar. Beware, this was not trivial, and it left me with the greatest respect for language designers. Clint	[reply]
Re^2: A minilanguage with the least effort? by wol (Hermit) on Feb 17, 2009 at 18:28 UTC
"Security implications"? Surely it would be just as secure as everyone's favourite language: Perl. That aside, here's an implementation (complete with syntax checking) for the mini-est language I can think of. `$_ = <>; die "Syntax Error\n" unless m/^[10]$/; die "Syntax Error\n" if defined <>; exit $_;` [download] I'll leave it up to you to work out what the valid input is. -- use JAPH; print JAPH::asString();	[reply] [d/l]