# Let's Build A Simple Interpreter. Part 9.

DevFeed: [Let's Build A Simple Interpreter. Part 9.](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/let-s-build-a-simple-interpreter-part-9-33330.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://ruslanspivak.com/lsbasi-part9/>)

Author: Ruslan Spivak

Published: 2016-05-01T10:10:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Ruslan Spivak](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/ruslan-spivak.md>)

Topics: [Programming](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/programming.md>), [Parsing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/parsing.md>), [Parser](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/parser.md>)

Tags: [blog](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/blog.md>), [how-to](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/how-to.md>), [language](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/language.md>), [programming](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/programming.md>), [syntax](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/syntax.md>)

## AI overview

Part 9 of a tutorial series explains how to parse and interpret Pascal programs, including compound statements, assignment statements, variables, and symbol tables.

## Source excerpt

I remember when I was in university (a long time ago) and learning systems programming, I believed that the only "real" languages were Assembly and C. And Pascal was - how to put it nicely - a very high-level language used by application developers who didn't want to know what was ...