Meta interpreter

A meta interpreter is an interpreter for  language written in the language itself. An interpreter is, when it comes to programming languages, a program that can take a source program as input and execute the program generating the expected result. A meta-interpreter is an interpreter for a language written in the language itself (you might think that this is rather pointless since you would still need an interpreter to execute the meta-interpreter  but that is just negative thinking)

In this assignment you will learn more about functional programming languages as well as practice some Elixir programming.

• interpreter.pdf

At the seminar we will discuss solutions and also talk about different strategies. 

• meta.pdf

Here is a summary of the operational semantics that also gives some insight in why we do as we do.

• operational.pdf

Slides from the TA-session:

• Meta Interpreter Slides