Some kind of (code) interpreter?

[insanepotato]

I was thinking, it would be pretty cool to be able to run scripts and the sorts from RB. Not so much shell scripts, as that will probably lead to disaster 

I'm thinking along the lines of a sort of basic interpreter, which will allow the members of the RB community who are not familiar with C/compiling/patching/ to make games and programs.

Perhaps a program may look like:
#coment
begin
#same as rb->splash(HZ*1, "Please enter Number");
prompt "Please enter Number", 1
#numerical variable a
var num a
#use the RB virtual keyboard, store input into a.
input a
#display the number entered
prompt "you entered", 1
prompt a,1
end

Maybe after, we can have things such as drawing commands and goto/label statements 

[obo]

Something like http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/9174?

[insanepotato]

Awesome, i never noticed it there!

thanks 

[motionman95]

Does it still work?  And how do you use it?

[ve4cib]

If anyone with more time on their hands than me is feeling ambitious some sort of Python or Perl interpreter would be awesome.  It doesn't need to be interactive necessarily; I'm imagining more of a meta-plugin.  Write some code for a new plugin in Python, copy it over to the device, run it through the "PyRock" plugin and *poof* done.

(You can probably achieve that same kind of functionality with the Lua plugin, but I'm kind of guessing there.)

Another (slightly more esoteric) thought would be a Lisp interpreter.  Lisp interpreters can be exceptionally tiny (there's only a small handful of built-in functions), and the regular syntax makes it relatively easy to parse.

I've only been playing around with Rockbox since... last night, so I haven't had a chance to look through the plugin development docs, but if I have a chance I'll maybe see about producing something more formal in terms of specs.