Re: Fwd: Re: Parrot BASIC

[Klaas-Jan Stol]

Joshua Gatcomb wrote:
All,
Please read Clinton's reply - especially the part
about being blocked from the list for about a year.
Cheers,
Joshua Gatcomb
a.k.a. Limbic~Region
--- "Clinton A. Pierce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 

Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 11:34:05 -0500
To: Joshua Gatcomb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Clinton A. Pierce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Parrot BASIC
CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 12:54 PM 11/15/2004 -0800, Joshua Gatcomb wrote:
   

Clinton,
William Coleda has updated Parrot BASIC enough to
     

get
   

wumpus and screen working, albeit not entirely
cleanly.  In IRC, it was mentioned by Dan that we
should be automating some BASIC tests as part of
     

the
   

test suite.  We were wondering what your thoughts
     

on
   

it were and if you plan on continuing maintenance?
And just to be clear for those reading at
     

home....just
   

because I am asking doesn't mean I am volunteering.
     

I've been neglectful in taking care of this, sure. 
A few things to note:

* I've been unable to post to p6i for over a year
now.  My mail-relay for 
my ISP (Comcast) and my hosted domain (geeksalad)
has been on a blacklist 
for sending to perl.org for quite a while.  I can't
move my domain till Feb 
at the inside, and don't have another mail option
handy.  Not being able to 
write to p6i dampens enthusiasm for the project a
bit.  (You'll note the 
cc'd copy probably won't reach P6I.  Feel free to
forward it to them.)

* Originally it was an interesting hack for the
infant Parrot (before PIR, 
in the spirit of TinyBASIC), then a little more
serious hack (look, a 
QuickBASIC that plays chess in color!), but since
there's a plethora of 
other languages it has lost its hack value.  Is
there a need beyond the 
initial hacks?  If so, then I'm still interested
because...

* It should probably be re-written by someone who
understands parsers and 
writing real language compilers.  I'm willing to
learn (I'd love to 
learn!), but I'm going to need to pester the hell
out of someone every now 
and then for help.  This is step 0 in making it
supportable.

* Step 1, of course, is to write tests.  Since it
was a hack, and the test 
framework was iffy at the time of the first hack, I
never really got around 
to it.  About the time that I did (6/2003) I lost
the ability to post to P6I.

So I'd be willing to work, when I have tuits (I get
them now and 
again).  If there's a need and someone willing to
coach...


   


		
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Clinton,
What kind of knowledge are you looking for?
How would you want to rewrite the Parrot BASIC compiler? in C or in PIR?
Depending on the level of knowledge you need, I could help you (I know a 
bit about parsers, I think :-)

(I've been trying a lot to implement a Lua compiler (version 5), but I'm 
seriously stuck on generating code for assignments (it's not as simple 
as it seems, but then again, I may be thinking in the wrong direction; 
for that I need either an implementation example (doesn't do Perl do 
multiple assignments? (i.e. a, b, c = c, b, a) , but that's another story).)

Anyway, could you describe what you would need? Maybe I can help.
regards,
klaas-jan