Scripting Series: Language and Tool Design

This is the series I originally wanted this blog for, and it's a lot bigger in scope than I would have imagined just two weeks ago.

It covers five basic topics, that can be viewed more or less independently:

• Theory on Scripting
• Part 1
• Interpreters and Derived Tools (design & code for an interpreter, debugger and decompiler),
• Part 2 - Architecture
• Part 3 - Code 1
• Part 4 - Code 2
• Behaviour Tree Builder (design and implementation of an example of the second topic),
• Part 5 - Design
• Part 6 - Code
• Alternatives to Code Compilation
• Part 7
• Assemblers (coding a very basic code compiler)
• Part 8 - Code 1
• Part 9 - Regex
• Part 10 - Code 2

The source code created over the course of this series can be found on pastebin:

• The interpreter and its decorators after part 4
• The behaviour tree loader after part 6
• The compiler after after part 10