Hello Creighton, Wednesday, December 21, 2005, 8:14:22 AM, you wrote: CH> I really like your idea of implementing an interpreter for CH> just some kindof functional language. That sounds like it'd CH> be pretty instructive and have less frustration factor than CH> a whole compiler. Thanks! see at the Parsec library. it contains as examples implementations of several functional and imperative languages and all implementations is just about 10-30kb Parsec, parsing combinators, and monads is very Haskellish things http://www.nomaware.com/monads/monad_tutorial.zip http://members.chello.nl/hjgtuyl/tourdemonad.html http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh//pearl.hs http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh//monparsing.pdf http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh//parsing.pdf http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh//pearl.pdf -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:bulatz@HotPOP.com