Date   : Sat, 30 Apr 1983 1652-:00PDT
From   : Jeffrey@office-6
Subject: Language Translator query

I need some help putting together a quick and dirty translator
for a basic-like application language (custom language).

The langauge will have commands similar to those of Basic including

                           GOTO xxx

where xxx is a label on one of the commands in the "program" being
translated.

Most of the other commands are straight forward sorts which begin with
a command name and may have some arguments separated by commas:


              COMMAND-NAME  arg1, arg2, ...

where most of the arguments are numeric, symbolic, or selector
(e.g. YES | NO) type things.

Some fo the arguments will be multiline text literals.

What I am looking for is any code that I could hack into
a reasonable translator for this language.  By the way,
the output of the translator will be an intermediate
form representation of the input suitable for interpretation
by a runtime package.

I am hoping to write the translator in C (BDS or Lattice) but would
go with some other language if I found a very nice box of code
to hackup.

All suggestions will be aprreciated.  Please send them directly to
me (jeffrey@office).

thanks very much,

Jeffrey Stone
Menlo Park, Ca.