Best Interpreters & Compilers for Linux

Hoc (short from High Order Calculator) is an interpreted language for floating-point calculations. Its most basic use is as a powerful and convenient calculator, interactively evaluating expressions such as 1+2*sin(0.7). But hoc is no ordinary calculator:...

Mawk is an open source interpreter for the AWK programming language.Mawk is smaller and much faster than gawk. It has some compile-timelimits, such as sprintf buffer = 1020 and NF = 32767. What is new in this release: Add configure check to work...

bpython is a fancy interface to the Python interpreter for Unix-like operating systems. It is released under the MIT License.A few people asked for stuff like syntax highlighting and autocomplete for the Python interactive interpreter. IPython seems to...

Pyexpander is a powerful macro processing language based on Python. Instead of simple macro replacement it offers evaluation of arbitrary python expressions and execution of python code. Pyexpander is Turing Complete.What is new in this release:The...

bff is a moderately optimizing BF interpreter and a relatively fast (due to the moderate optimizations) Brainfuck language interpreter written in portable C.InstallationTo build with GNU tools runmakeTo install in /usr/bin (not sure why you'd be wanting...

SMOP stands for Open-Source Matlab/Octave to Python compiler and is written in Python, using Fossil for project management. SMOP is platform-independent, but is tested only on Ubuntu Linux and Windows-xp.SMOP is work in progress. My current goal is...

bigloo is an open source scheme compiler that delivers small and fast stand alone binary executables.The current version has been compiled and tested on:· x86-linux (Debian 3.0, Mandrake 8.1, Sun JDK 1.4.1)· x86-win32 (Windows 2000,...

Linaro Toolchain Binaries is an open source binary package built by Linaro to include ready to use binaries of Linaro's GCC and GDB tools. It also includes a statically linked gdbserver,  a system root and manuals.Linaro Toolchain Binaries can be...

SWIG is an open source, completely free, multiplatform and portable interface compiler, a C/C++ command-line program that allows developers to connect their applications with various other scripting/programming languages. It has been designed from the...

bin86 is based on Bruce Evans's C compiler with additonal code, including a reasonable C library for ELKS DOS or standalone, written by myself and others.This is the source mainly for use with Linux i386 but should work with other unix versions, within...