From: Pat Eyler <pate@...>
Date: 2002-01-02T04:41:10+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:29982] Re: Project Proposal: Cardinal: Ruby frontend for Parrot

On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Phil Tomson wrote:

> We've had a couple of different threads flowing here the last few days
> about getting Ruby to work with Parrot.  Dan Sugalski has suggested that
> we (the Ruby community) need to create a Ruby parser in Ruby that
> initially needs to emit Parrot bytecode and later we could pass on an AST.
>
> So..... I want to propose a new project called Cardinal (the name is open
> to discussion, I chose Cardinal because Parrots are birds, Rubys are red
> and Cardinals are red birds - is the name already taken?  I don't see
> any Cardinal project on RAA).  The goal of Cardinal is to create a Ruby
> frontend for Parrot.

In October, I started working on rabbit a ruby-like language for parrot
(choosen for the similarity in sound between rabbit, ruby, and parrot --
the speedy connotation was nice too).  Alas, I got busy doing other things
(like a long family trip) at about the same time I realized that I was in
over my head.

>
[ellision]
>
> Who?
> Who's interested?

I'm interested, but not sure how much help I can be.

-pate

>
> Ideas, Suggestions?
>
> Phil
>
>