All, Please read Clinton's reply - especially the part about being blocked from the list for about a year.
Cheers, Joshua Gatcomb a.k.a. Limbic~Region --- "Clinton A. Pierce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 11:34:05 -0500 > To: Joshua Gatcomb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: "Clinton A. Pierce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Parrot BASIC > CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > At 12:54 PM 11/15/2004 -0800, Joshua Gatcomb wrote: > >Clinton, > >William Coleda has updated Parrot BASIC enough to > get > >wumpus and screen working, albeit not entirely > >cleanly. In IRC, it was mentioned by Dan that we > >should be automating some BASIC tests as part of > the > >test suite. We were wondering what your thoughts > on > >it were and if you plan on continuing maintenance? > > > >And just to be clear for those reading at > home....just > >because I am asking doesn't mean I am volunteering. > > I've been neglectful in taking care of this, sure. > A few things to note: > > * I've been unable to post to p6i for over a year > now. My mail-relay for > my ISP (Comcast) and my hosted domain (geeksalad) > has been on a blacklist > for sending to perl.org for quite a while. I can't > move my domain till Feb > at the inside, and don't have another mail option > handy. Not being able to > write to p6i dampens enthusiasm for the project a > bit. (You'll note the > cc'd copy probably won't reach P6I. Feel free to > forward it to them.) > > * Originally it was an interesting hack for the > infant Parrot (before PIR, > in the spirit of TinyBASIC), then a little more > serious hack (look, a > QuickBASIC that plays chess in color!), but since > there's a plethora of > other languages it has lost its hack value. Is > there a need beyond the > initial hacks? If so, then I'm still interested > because... > > * It should probably be re-written by someone who > understands parsers and > writing real language compilers. I'm willing to > learn (I'd love to > learn!), but I'm going to need to pester the hell > out of someone every now > and then for help. This is step 0 in making it > supportable. > > * Step 1, of course, is to write tests. Since it > was a hack, and the test > framework was iffy at the time of the first hack, I > never really got around > to it. About the time that I did (6/2003) I lost > the ability to post to P6I. > > So I'd be willing to work, when I have tuits (I get > them now and > again). If there's a need and someone willing to > coach... > > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! http://my.yahoo.com