Plum-headed Parakeet

Bernhard on 2006-09-09T21:24:56

Mark Overmeer passed on one of the take home messages from YAPC::Europe in Birmingham. In a lightening talk about XML::Compile, http://search.cpan.org/user/markov/XML-Compile, he said something like: Never mind the XML, it's just syntax. The day before, Allison Randall had talked about the Parrot compiler tools and mentioned how XSLT had influenced the design of TGE. So I wondered whether Never mind the XSLT, it's just syntax. applies as well.

The XSLT project I came up with, is to take the XML output of phc, http://phpcompiler.org and transform it to something Parrot can understand. phc parses PHP, so this should become an implementation of PHP on Parrot.

As a projectname, http://svn.perl.org/viewcvs/parrot/trunk/languages/plumhead, I chose 'Plumhead', which is short for Plum-headed Parakeet, . The description on Wikipedia is neat too: Plum-headed Parakeet is a gregarious and noisy species with range of raucous calls.


Cool!

ChrisDolan on 2006-09-11T03:43:10

This is very interesting. If you have time, please add more notes to your journal as you go along. I'd love to follow your progress.