Day 164: Perl 6 compiled to... Javascript!

autrijus on 2005-07-17T18:41:45

Just as we were getting accustomed to putter's Perl6 on Perl5 work, iblech shocked us all with r5644. I will let the commit log speak for itself:

r5644: iblech | 2005-07-18 01:41:27 +0800
PIL -> JavaScript compiler.

• Pugs.Compile: Modified the declaration of PApp to accept an invocant.
• Pugs.CodeGen.PIR: Minor changes because of change #1, pugs -BPIR still passes the sanity tests.
• New directory perl5/PIL2JS, containing various modules, a README, and pil2js.pl:

    $ pugs -CPIL -Ilib6 -MPrelude::JS -we 'say 2 + 3' | \
      ./pil2js.pl -html > /tmp/t.html
  

• t/01-sanity mostly pass! (see http://m19s28.vlinux.de/iblech/stuff/not_perm/pil2js-demo/)
• t/01-sanity/03-equal.t doesn't pass because of a bug in Pugs.Compile ("3 || 4" is compiled to "&infix:<||>(3, 4)" instead of "&infix:<||>(3, {4})" or something similar.
• See perl5/PIL2JS/README for a list of things which already work.

Wow. Seeing 05-sub.t compiled into 05-sub.t.html really made my day. Wow.

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Be Afraid

jk2addict on 2005-07-17T21:27:12

Ok, that's just sick. The Pugs crew is really starting to worry me.

Where's the Perl6 -> COBOL stuff? :-)

Re:Be Afraid

TorgoX on 2005-07-19T09:31:51

I actually have been considering how interesting a cobol2anythingElse might be. But I don't know Cobol, nor do I know anyone who knows it.

This cobol2c seems about the farthest anyone's gotten.