antirez/picol

A Tcl interpreter in 500 lines of code

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…of Picol has a Tcl-alike [expr] implemented in 40 lines of code that uses Pratt-style parsing: https://github.com/antirez/picol/blob/main/picol.c#L490
comment by antirez · 2026-04-01 · in Intuiting Pratt Parsing
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Picol: A Tcl interpreter in 500 lines of code
story by tosh · 2026-02-16 · 72 comments
…is not in the category of code I regret writing :D Still relatively useful for newcomers, I hope. https://github.com/antirez/picol
comment by antirez · 2025-03-16 · in Tcl Tutorial
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Picol: A Tcl interpreter in 500 lines of code
story by shakna · 2025-03-11 · 0 comments