metaruby
http://www.zenspider.com/
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DESCRIPTION:
metaruby is a reimplementation of ruby in ruby. The intent is to make
it easier to understand, maintain, and extend ruby.
Eventually it will have a complete parser, interpreter, core library,
and a ruby-subset-to-c translator (maybe parrot instead... not
sure). We'll be modifying rubicon as our test suite.
MILESTONES:
1) Basic Porting
1) [DONE] everything.rb generats and runs without warnings.
1.1) [DONE] preprocess.rb and port.rb have the absolute minimum of HACK tags.
2) Parser/Interpreter/Translator
1) parser does a sucessful first pass at everything.rb
2) parser actually generates ASTs
3) interpreter can run ASTs
4) Library milestones can pass under interpreter
5) parser can generate C and/or parrot code.
6) Library milestones can pass under generated & compiled interproter.
3) Library
1) ZArray passes all of it's rubicon tests using ruby interpreter
2) ZHash, ZFile, ZIO, ZDictionary pass all their tests
FEATURES/PROBLEMS:
+ Soooo far from done...
SYNOPSIS:
n/a
REQUIREMENTS:
+ A ruby interpreter - this thing doesn't bootstrap itself yet.
INSTALL:
+ none, yet.
LICENSE:
(The MIT License)
Copyright (c) 2001-2002 Ryan Davis, Zen Spider Software
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