Picol is a Tcl-like interpreter implemented in just 500 lines of C code, originally released in 2007. It demonstrates interpreter design principles with a hand-written parser, supports interpolation, procedures with recursion, control flow (if/while/break/continue), scoped variables with call frames, and basic

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RulesThe resulting interpreter: PicolDesign

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