I’m looking to produce an educational tool to be used in a Code Club for teenagers.
My eventual goal is to produce a rule-based, non-graphical DSL (and accompanying IDE) that facilitates the creation of “bots” for an online game.
For now though, I just want to mock up the IDE using an established language. I was thinking of Prolog as I’m familiar with it and it is rule based, but I’m not too fussed.
Where I’m at:
- I’ve seen a couple of good code editing components I could use.
- I’ve seen Prolog.Net, which I figure could somehow be used to do the heavy lifting
What I need to know:
- How do I run script that has been entered into a textbox at run-time?
If it matters, I generally use C# in Visual Studio.
Have you taken a look at the GOLD Parser? I used it in a project (created a DSL for users to define custom business rules) about a year ago, and it did what I needed. You can define your own grammars with it.