An interactive tutorial for uCalc Language Builder is now available. It will walk you through various concepts and allow you to experiment as you go along. In addition to that, this beta now comes with a full help file for uCalc LB and one for the Interactive Interpreter.

 

If you have downloaded previous betas of uCalc LB, and couldn't figure it out, then you should download this one. With the included help files and interactive tutorial, it should now be significantly easier to understand how to make use of uCalc LB.

 

The fully functional download includes the following:
* uCalc Language Builder component
* Interactive interpreter (which can also run script files)
* Interactive instructional tutorial
* Interpreted versions of Lisp, Forth, BASIC, and more
* Line-by-line explanation files to accompany source code files
* Help files for uCalc LB and uCalc Interpreter

 

The file to download is http://www.ucalc.com/beta/lbnov07b.zip .

 

I look forward to hearing from others in this Lightweight Languages forum.

 

So what exactly is uCalc Language Builder?

 

uCalc LB is designed to let you easily create your own interpreted / scripting languages. It comes with sample languages such as Lisp, Forth, BASIC and more. These are defined in plain text files, which you can load right up into the generic uCalc interpreter, at which point it becomes an interpreter for the language you have just loaded. The interpreter can run code either from script files or interactively.

 

In addition to constructing programming languages, you can use the interpreter for powerful text processing, or as a command line calculator / expression evaluator.

 

The current version runs under Windows.

 

Daniel Corbier
uCalc Language Builder
www.ucalc.com

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