Must have Interpreters & Compilers for Linux

Susie (Scripting Using a Smalltalk Interpreter Engine) is an attempt to provide a light weight scripting engine using Smalltalk as the language. It is based on Public Domain SmallTalk...

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...

The Tcl/Tk project provides an open source, multiplatform, totally free and portable scripting environment that supports string processing and pattern matching, native file system access, shell-like control over other programs, TCP/IP networking, timers,...

The Amsterdam Compiler Kit or in short just ACK, is a fast, lightweight and retargetable compiler suite and toolchain written by Andrew Tanenbaum and Ceriel Jacobs, and was Minix' native toolchain. The ACK was originally closed-source software (that...

The Blue Programming Language project is a unique bytecode-compiled language that implements the most effective capabilities of many popular programming languages in a clear and concise syntax. Plugin modules are easy to develop and can add functions,...

The Glasgow Haskell Compiler is a state-of-the-art, open source, compiler and interactive environment for the functional language Haskell. GHC is heavily dependent on its users and contributors. Please come and join the mailing lists and send us your...

Jim is an opensource small footprint implementation of the Tcl programming language. It implements a large subset of Tcl and adds new features like references with garbage collection, closures, built-in Object Oriented Programming system, Functional...

Caml is a general-purpose programming language, designed with program safety and reliability in mind. It is very expressive, yet easy to learn and use. Caml supports functional, imperative, and object-oriented programming styles.It has been developed and...

The Squirrel programming language is a high level imperative/OO programming language, designed to be a powerful scripting tool that fits in the size, memory bandwidth, and real-time requirements of applications like games. Although Squirrel offers a wide...

Tiny C compiles so fast that even for big projects Makefiles may not be necessary.TinyCC (aka TCC) is a small but hyper fast C compiler. Unlike other C compilers, it is meant to be self-relying: you do not need an external assembler or linker because TCC...