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

[Dan Sugalski]

At 4:38 PM +0200 5/13/02, Erik Bågfors wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 18:11, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> >  At 10:24 AM +0200 5/8/02, Erik Bågfors 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.
> >
> >  Cool. If the project can run with a stock Ruby, I'm OK adding it to
> >  the Parrot CVS repository once it's stable and going. The limitation
> >  on required tools only applies to the base project, not to things in
> >  the languages directory. (Or some of the other ancillary places, like
> >  the editors or examples directory)
>
> I don't know if it will ever be "stable and going".  I just created it
> for fun and never had any plans on it acctually being usefull in any
> way.  I see no reason to add it to the parrot cvs, but I will put it up
> for people here to view.

Fair enough. I just don't want folks to think it has to be all in
perl, or come from the perl6-internals list, to be worth including in
the CVS repository. As far as I'm concerned, anything that uses
parrot is worth it, and things like this are viable as projects worth
hosting on the parrot CVS repository. (Though I may have to convince
the guys who actually do the work of administering the repository
that it's worth it :)

> I didn't want to bother with parsing at all but just
> parrot-assembly-creation so I just grabbed the rockit parser and used
> it's MiniBasic as a start for the compiler.  So it just needs ruby and
> rockit to work.

Which, while it means it'll not be appropriate as part of the core
parrot, doesn't mean it's not suitable for the languages section of
the parrot repository.

>  > >So, I was planing on putting lot's of question into a mail and sending
> >  >either to this list or to the perl6-internals list (which I'm not on
> >  >currently, I just read the archives). Of course these are question to
> >  >which I have not found answers either on parrotcode.org or in the
> >  >perl6-internals archive.
> >  >
> >  >What do you think Dan, shall I just send the mail here?
> >
> >  Send them to both places. The questions and their answers will be of
> >  interest to a lot of people.
>
> Whenever I get time to gather them up in my mind I'll do that.
> Many of them might have been discussed before but my searches through
> the archives couldn't find them...

Works. Google's apparently pretty up to date on the perl6-internals
list archives, and if someone can dig up the Magic Syntax to get
google to restrict itself to just the perl6-internals archive it'd be
a help.
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                                        Dan

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