I should note that this is really, really experimental, sort of proof-of-concept. It isn't an effort intended to duplicate or replace the R Project... for reasons (beyond the scope of this email) that would be almost impossible. A minimalist implementation would be pretty cool, though, and a sense of humor is essential.
I'll be working fairly hard on this over the next month and will likely post "how-to" question on the Parrot users list. Please forgive me in advance for 'stupid questions' -- but this may be necessary. I find myself spinning my wheels on little things, and even if I vaguely remember something in the docs I can't always find it or it isn't quite what I need. Like: in NQP, how do I find the length of @anarray ? Does the answer to this require knowledge of the type of the array (fixed versus resizable, integer versus float)? Many thanks, and I hope at least having an additional person trying to build a language will provide some helpful feedback. Jay On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Jonathan "Duke" Leto <[email protected]> wrote: > Howdy, > > I have attached some slides that Jay Emerson has sent me that relate to > building a new implementation of R on top of Parrot. > > This is exciting stuff! > > He tells me that the 'Q' language idea has been abandoned and currently they > are coming up with Not Quite R. Doesn't that feel familiar? > > Please consider helping this effort if you are looking for something to hack > on. I will post more details when there is a publicly available code repo. > > Duke > > > -- > Jonathan "Duke" Leto <[email protected]> > 209.691.DUKE // http://leto.net > NOTE: Personal email is only checked twice a day at 10am/2pm PST, > please call/text for time-sensitive matters. > -- John W. Emerson (Jay) Associate Professor of Statistics Department of Statistics Yale University http://www.stat.yale.edu/~jay _______________________________________________ http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev
