README.md

Monkey Language Interpreter in Go

The code in this repository contains an interpreter for "Monkey" language, written by following Writing An Interpreter In Go by Thorsten Ball

Monkey is a simple and intuitive programming language designed for learning and understanding the fundamentals of interpreters and compilers.

Features

• Lexer for tokenizing Monkey source code
• Parser for generating an Abstract Syntax Tree (AST)
• Evaluator for interpreting the AST and executing the Monkey code
• REPL (Read-Eval-Print Loop) for an interactive programming environment
• Support for integer, boolean, string, array, and hash data types
• First-class functions and closures
• Error handling and custom error messages

Getting Started

Prerequisites

To run the Monkey interpreter, you will need:

• Go (version 1.16 or later)

Installation

1. Clone the repository:

    git clone https://github.com/mateuszmrw/monkey-interpreter-go.git

2. Change into the project directory:

    cd monkey-interpreter-go

3. Build the project:

    go build -o monkey

Usage

Running the REPL

To start the REPL and interact with the Monkey interpreter, simply run:

    ./monkey

You will be greeted with a prompt where you can enter Monkey code.