From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson) Date: 2002-01-03T09:46:49+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:30089] Re: Project Proposal: Cardinal: Ruby frontend for Parrot In article , Pat Eyler wrote: >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. > Got any code? >> >[ellision] >> >> Who? >> Who's interested? > >I'm interested, but not sure how much help I can be. Any help is appreciated. I'll be trying to wrap up some other projects (or at least put them in a state such they can be put to sleep for a while) and then I'll put up a Cardinal project page. Phil