Another little short side project I worked on over the weekend was an interpreter for Ook, an odd little language “designed for Orangutans”. It only has a few syntax elements and 8 different statements so I figured it would be a fun use of my basic F# skills (I’ve been reading Fundamentals of F# and Expert F# on Safari Books through work). Using the example files on bluesorcerer.net as test files, I successfully got it running in half a day. I can’t say it is the fastest or most efficient interpreter for Ook, but it is my first interpreter so it was a learning experience. If you have any questions or comments on how I implemented it, please feel free to add them below.
Enough talk, here’s the GitHub project: http://github.com/jamiepenney/ook-sharp
You’ll need the latest F# CTP installed to open this project in Visual Studio 2008.