monic part 5: writing C programs on the calculator

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(01-01-2021 01:35 AM)F-73P Wrote:  the translator produces a sequence of codes. When the program is run the codes are fed to a switch statement, which executes the corresponding instruction. Does this make the translator a compiler, or is it an interpreter?

Very nice work, judging from your description!

This is not a trivial accomplishment.

I assume you are lexing/parsing the source code just once, so this is a compiler that produces (byte) codes. Your virtual machine executes them in a loop with a switch statement. This approach is in principle similar to the JVM. Just to compare, I wrote a small C compiler that produces JVM class files from "mini C" source code.