From: Pat Eyler <pate@...>
Date: 2002-04-27T09:10:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Cardinal project page on Savannah

On Sat, 27 Apr 2002, Euan Mee wrote:

> On 20 Apr 2002, at 15:50, Phil Tomson wrote:
> > I started a Cardinal project page at Savannah.  Those who are
> > interested in following Cardinal development should sign up for
> > the cardinal-dev mailing list there.
> >
> > http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/cardinal/
>
> I checked out the URL.  It said 'The purpose of the Cardinal
> project is to create a Ruby frontend for Parrot.'.
>
> So, the obvious question is, what is Parrot, and what is it for?

Parrot is the VM for Perl6.  It is being designed with other languages
(mainly python and ruby) in mind.  Right now it is significantly faster
than perl for the things it is capable of.  Dan Sugalski (the project
leader) feels that it will continue to be much faster than perl.

Getting ruby to work on Parrot would do a couple of things:

1) be *really* cool
2) possibly achieve better performance
3) possibly pave the way for moving ruby to other back-ends
4) give a lot of people the chance to learn more about ruby by playing
   deep inside its guts.

you may want to look at http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?CardinalProject for
more information.

-pate

ps, I'm sure you'll get other, more detailed answers shortly ;)

>
>
>
> Cheers,
>      Euan
> xlucid@users.sourceforge.net
>
> 'I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance,
> Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance'
>  - Ogden Nash
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