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[Sean Smith <smsmith@xxxxxxxxx>]

I once had this same ambition. Then I lost the time I had planned to use for pynie. I could be a casual contributor if significant development picks up.

Where I left off, I was learning that some internal objects from perl6 were reused for pynie unchanged. However, some of their built-in behaviors did not match python's expected behaviors. I wanted to be able to share data directly with perl6 at runtime, so using the same object types was good, but I couldn't figure out how to reuse the same objects and define different behaviors for things like string conversion, Boolean conversion, etc.

I also hadn't quite understood the machinery used to do parsing and so on. There was an awful lot of thinly documented magic at work there.

All of this was years ago. Much may have changed since then. Please do report back what you find. I hope you inspire me to try again.

- Sean

On Feb 4, 2012, at 6:01 AM, John Rizzo <johnrizzo1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm definitely interested in contributing to get python on parrot.  I'm trying to learn more about language design in general and the relationship between the language, compiler and kernel/vm. 
> 
> I'm going to check it out today and try to get familiar with the code base.  Do you guys ever hang on irc?  I'm in the UK but I'll try to stay on the irc channel and see if anyone is around.
> 
> John Rizzo
> johnrizzo1@xxxxxxxxx
> 
> 
> On 3 February 2012 07:54, Allison Randal <allison@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 01/16/2012 06:23 PM, John Rizzo wrote:
> > Hey guys I am interested in language development and I was looking at
> > Parrot and Pynie.  Before I go too far down the rabbit hole I was
> > wondering if this project is still active.  The last commit appears to
> > be from Feb 2010.
> 
> It's in suspended animation. We put it on hold for some changes in the
> Parrot tool chain. Look at Puffin (Google Summer of Code project) for
> the most recent work on Python on Parrot:
> https://bitbucket.org/lucian1900/puffin. The general idea of Puffin was
> to try out a new approach, and then restart Pynie along those lines if
> it worked out well.
> 
> If you're interested in contributing to Python on Parrot, I'd be happy
> to help you get started. But, if you're looking for a model to use as a
> base for implementing some other language, then I'll point you at other
> projects depending on the kind of language you're interested in.
> 
> Allison
> 
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