On 25 March 2011 08:05, Francis Tyers <[email protected]> wrote:
> El dj 24 de 03 de 2011 a les 20:47 +0000, en/na George Trigeorgis va
> escriure:
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> Im George Trigeorgis, (irc: tbhoc for those who know me :] ).  I am
>> interested in participating in
>> this year GSOC. I am very much interested to work on VM for transfer
>> project. I could not reach sortiz
>> which seems to be the mentor of the project on irc so I have decided to
>> use the mailing list.
>
> Sergio is not taking part this year, but it is a shame to leave the
> project like that, so if you come up with a strong proposal/application
> you could well find another mentor -- including Zaher for example.
>

Sergio might take part, under the right conditions.

>> I have seen the work that darthxaher (Abu Zaher) did for last year and
>> it seems that he did
>> quite nice work so I am assuming that the chosen one is expected to work
>> on where he left
>> last year? (Using the instruction set he made up etc. ?)
>
> Yes exactly. Zaher should be able to fill you in.
>
>> Also although I have pretty strong C/C++ skills my python skills are not
>> so much fresh
>> (I am more of a Ruby guy). Is the prototype in Python mandatory? Because
>> I think I may be
>> more productive in Ruby or even Haskell :).
>
> You can do the prototyping in C++ if you want. The rest is up to the
> mentor. I don't know Haskell or Ruby, but I can't imagine python would
> be hard to learn for someone who already knows four languages.

Sergio already answered this: "It is just a prototype, so the specific
programming language have less importance, Ruby would be acceptable
given that pure C++ is the final working code."

The point is: prototype it. Think of it as the carpenting adage:
measure twice, cut once.

-- 
<Leftmost> jimregan, that's because deep inside you, you are evil.
<Leftmost> Also not-so-deep inside you.

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