From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2002-01-15T03:09:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Project Proposal: Cardinal: Ruby frontend for	Parrot

In article <1011017192.1541.5.camel@detrius>,
Erik B�gfors  <erik@bagfors.nu> wrote:
>On Tue, 2002-01-01 at 20:24, 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.
>> 
>
>Anything new about this?  I'd love to have this working.  I've been
>looking at parrot for a while and I think it's looking very good.  But
>I'm not a expert in stuff like this.
>
Nothing really new.  I just _PROPOSED_ a project.  It's not officially 
started yet.  I need to wrap up a couple other projects (or at least get 
them to the point where I can put them on hold) first.  I think (unless 
somebody else wants to officially kick it off [hint, hint]) that it'll 
officially start sometime in early February.

>I really want to help to make this thing a reality.  Is there work
>done?  

Oh, yes there is lots of work to be done.  

>If not should we start getting a mailinglist or something up?
>

We need a mailing list and a project page (sourceforge or savannah - I'd 
kind of like to try savannah)

>Starting to implement a few of the classes in parrot seams like an easy
>job for example.

If you want to start doing that please feel free.

Phil