On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Jay Emerson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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)?
+@anarray > 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 > -- Will "Coke" Coleda _______________________________________________ http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev
