[Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of Cardinal

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Phil Tomson <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: gpl
Other License: 
Package: Cardinal
System name: cardinal
This package does NOT want to apply for inclusion in the GNU project

 
The purpose of this project is to create a Ruby language frontend for the
Parrot Virtual Machine.
 

Initially, we will produce a Ruby parser written in Ruby.  There are a few 
projects we could build on to produce the parser (see: 
http://rockit.sourceforge.net ). Ruby code will be parsed with our parser and 
either Parrot bytecode or assembly will be produced from the resulting Abstract 
Syntax Tree.  After the Parrot project completes their parser we\'ll migrate 
the parser portion from Ruby to Parrot\'s parser.   We will have to implement 
Ruby\'s basic types in the context of Parrot (using PMCs or Parrot Magic 
Cookies).


 *for more info on Parrot see: http://www.parrotcode.org/ 
 *for more info on Ruby  see: http://www.ruby-lang.org

A wiki page on the CardinalProject has been started at:
http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?CardinalProject  


It does not exist yet but I\'m working on it.