Custom Language Interpretation

Question

I need to develop an application that will read and understand a text file in which I will find a special language that describes a list of operations (for example, a cooking recipe). This language has not yet been defined, but it will probably take one of the following forms:

• C ++ as code

(This code is randomly generated, for example, for the purpose):

begin
repeat(10)
{
    bar(toto, 10, 1999, xxx);
}
result = foo(xxxx, 10);
if(foo == ok)
{
    ...
}
else
{
    ...
}
end

• XML code

(This code is randomly generated, for example, for the purpose):

<recipe>
    <action name="foo" argument"bar, toto, xxx" repeat=10/>
    <action name="bar" argument"xxxxx;10" condition="foo == ok">
        <true>...</true>
        <false>...</false>
    </action>
</recipe>

Regardless of which language is selected, you have to handle simple conditions, cycles.

I have never done this, but at first glance it occurs to me that describing these operations in XML will be simpler and less powerful.

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