Parser & Symbol Table Generator

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Hello my favorites community!

I know this post is puch-a-punched with heavy-duty coding algorithms and questions. Please bear with me.

I am developing an application for which I need to implement a 'script' interpreter.

I have in mind what the 'script' syntax would look like.

Is there any way I could accelerate its development (books, free easy-to-use for noobs, ...) for developing such a small interpreter.

This interpreter should have all basic functional programming levels capabilities, such as variable [types], methods (functions) calling (with parameters) and 'return'-like keyword, if-then-else, while, for-each, arrays, operators, basic one-level class implementation, ...

I'm not asking about how to implement the whole thing. I just wanted to get started by a beautiful Parsed Symbol Table from which I can start executing (interpreting).

I shall have input file (plain text) > output > SymTable Structure of some kind.

In a nutshell, I need help with the "parsing" part of the interpreter, and I could do the rest.


Any ideas?