From: ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2005-02-05T02:25:40+09:00
Subject: Re: lack of reaction to latest ruby implementations

In article <6RLMd.15894$QG6.271600@twister2.libero.it>,
gabriele renzi  <rff_rff@remove-yahoo.it> wrote:
>mark ha scritto:
>
>>> i thought
>>> there were a few working on it? maybe i was
>>> mistaken, seems like a shame. how fast are
>>> the python / perl6 implementations written
>>> on top of parrot now?
>>>
>> AFAIK the perl6 implementation is still in the early stages. They have a 
>> working parser engine and are working on the perl 6 grammar.
>> 
>> I don't know how far along the the python implementation has gotten.
>
>the python frontend has had quite a lot of work lately, mostly since Sam 
>Ruby started hard hacking it, IIRC. Btw Ruby writing a python frontend 
>for a perl VM sounds too much funny :)

You couldn't make that up... 

Why hasn't that Sam Ruby guy converted to Ruby yet?  I mean here we've 
got a language with his same name tailor made for him ;-)


Phil