Tentcl is a small hand-parsed Tcl interpreter. This project was undertaken to better my understanding of the parsing and interpretation of programming languages.

It is an old project which was started in 2006. It is by no means complete; nor is it well-written. It is extremely inefficient in its execution, uses only lexical variables, and does not support much of the syntax of the Tcl l anguage.

For license details, see LICENSE

Aaron Marks nymacro AT gmail DOT com

In additional to the Tentcl source code, you will also need the mathexpr source code, which must be placed in the Tentcl root directory. e.g.

  tentcl
  |- src/
  |- mathexpr/
  |- dstructs/
  |- lineread/
  |- Makefile

To build the tclsh program, run the following. Run ./tclsh to run a Tcl REPL, or ./tclsh --help for other execution options.

cd tentcl
make all

make test

• Terrible runtime.
• Terrible spaghetti-code parsing.
• No non-numerical comparisons for conditionals (expr uses mathexpr, which does not support non-int types)
• Inefficient.
• Not thoroughly tested.
• Other things.