Hi. Hugely newbie at Parroting, but think it's the coolest. So I was bummed to see that Befunge and BASIC had already been parroted. (And Clinton Pierce even ported QuickBasic, which makes my Language::Basic completely useless. Argh!) Then I thought, "What about Z-machine?!" I was surprised to see that it hadn't been ported, and even more surprised when I saw that Dan et al. really wanted to port it but hadn't.
So: - Is it not being ported because of a lack of tuits, or because it's extremely hard? - A Perl 6 Summary from last year claimed Josh Wilmes was going to work on it. Does anyone know if he is and, if so, how far he's gotten? - Whether or not it's extremely hard, would it be useful to have some of the easy parts done by a newbie who can hack assembly but not well enough to put into the parrot core? In that case, which would be the easy parts? - I saw that Dan wanted to create a library to handle stack-based languages. I don't suppose that's been done at all? If not, I could steal from, e.g., befunge, which would be way better than starting from scratch. I would offer to create the library, but I'm not really confident enough about my (as-yet nonexistent) pasm-writing skills to write a library a bunch of other people use. - What the heck am I actually supposed to do? I read plenty of FMs but I'm sure I could still use plenty of guidance. As you can see, I'm totally clueless, but I'm a fan of Parrot, Perl, and Z, so it would be a lot of fun (if mostly useless) to get them working together. With some helpful hints and lots of free time (ha!) I might actually be able to contribute some. -Amir Karger __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com
