From: ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2006-08-12T05:19:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Cardinal: Not dead yet?

In article <200608111059.27179.jfh@cise.ufl.edu>,
James F. Hranicky <jfh@cise.ufl.edu> wrote:
>Didn't know this:
>
>	http://www.parrotcode.org/news/2006/Parrot-0.4.6.html
>

Several years ago (was it '02?) when I first proposed Cardinal and opened 
up a project, it became apparent that Parrot was very much a moving target 
and thus it seemed like it could be a waste of time to put much effort 
into Cardinal.  A couple of years ago it was reborn for a time due to the 
efforts of Mark Sparshatt.  But even then Parrot still proved to be too 
much of a moving target so not much happened (you can see the fruits of 
that effort here: http://rubyforge.org/projects/cardinal/ ).

More recently the Parrot folks have come up with lots of nice tools to 
help you write a front end and integrate it with Parrot.  I hadn't kept up 
with recent Parrot developments so I wasn't aware of these tools.  
Kevin Tew contacted me and asked if he could use the 'Cardinal' name and 
I told him that would be fine.  So hopefully this time we'll actually 
see Cardinal become something useful.

Phil