A Gang of Four behavioral design pattern that defines a representation for a language's grammar together with an interpreter that evaluates sentences in that language, used to build small domain-specific languages and expression evaluators.
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Core PrincipleDefines a representation for a language's grammar together with an interpreter that uses the representation to evaluate sentences written in that language. 2 Connections
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Erich Gamma, Pioneers Erich Gamma co-authored the 1994 Design Patterns book that named and catalogued the Interpreter pattern among the original 23.
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1. Wikipedia: Design Patterns (book)
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Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (1994) is a software engineering book describing software design patterns.
2. Wikipedia: Interpreter Pattern
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the interpreter pattern is a design pattern that specifies how to evaluate sentences in a language.
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