Re: [Cardinal-dev] Just for fun...

[Dan Sugalski]

At 12:22 PM -0400 5/8/02, Pat Eyler wrote:
> On Wed, 8 May 2002, Phil Tomson wrote:
>
> >  On 8 May 2002, Erik [ISO-8859-1] BÂgfors wrote:
> >
> >  > I created a mini-basic to parrot assembler compiler this weekend.  It's
> >  > not done yet but it was a fun project.  Of course the compiler is
> >  > written in ruby.
> >  Could you post it somewhere on the web so we can take a look?
> >
> >  Could you post a description of the steps you followed to do this?
>
> Yes, please to both of these.  I'd be happy to put the code online for you
> if you haven't a place for it.
>
> Maybe the 'how i wrote it' could go up on the rubygarden wiki.

FWIW, the next Perl Review will probably have an article by Clint
Pierce on the BASIC interpreter he wrote that's hosted on Parrot.
(And included in the source repository) Having him work on that shook
out a lot of bugs in the interpreter we'd not otherwise caught. (I'm
seriously considering adding a scripted version of "Hunt The Whumpus"
to the test suite...)
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                                        Dan

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