In an effort to keep the source tree nice and tidy, I'd like to
propose that we remove the following languages from the Parrot source
tree:
- languages/conversion/
This was added more than 3.5 years ago. It's supposed to be a
BNF to Perl6 Rules translator. I don't think its ever been used, and I
couldn't figure out how to work it (I got errors when I tried using
any of the examples).
- languages/forth/
I was actually the last one to provide a patch to forth (there
were some other commits that modified things like copyright info, but
those don't count). That was 20 months ago. The implementation was
horribly dated then and things are far worse now. It needs to be
reimplemented in order to work. This was dan's beast; I'm sure he
won't care if it's removed.
- languages/miniperl/
This hasn't seen any development in 4 years. The author is no
longer involved with Parrot. With punie and perl6, I don't see why we
need it.
- languages/ruby/
This doesn't appear to have had any work done on it in the
past 3.5 years. It's nothing more than a (partial?) Parse::RecDescent
grammar. Its author is no longer involved with Parrot. It's doubtful
that what's here would be of any use to anyone now.
If no one has any objections, I'll remove these towards the end of the
week or during the weekend.
--
matt diephouse
http://matt.diephouse.com
