tools/install/smoke_languages.pl: What purpose does this serve?

Andrew Whitworth wknight8111 at gmail.com
Sat Jan 15 23:58:25 UTC 2011


I suspect strongly that the script is not useful anymore. Create a
branch, delete it, and see what happens.

--Andrew Whitworth



On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 6:47 PM, James E Keenan <jkeen at verizon.net> wrote:
> In the course of some cage-cleaning, I came across
> http://trac.parrot.org/parrot/ticket/1360.  This led me to look at
> tools/install/smoke_languages.pl and try to run it.  This was the output I
> got:
>
> perl tools/install/smoke_languages.pl --bindir=.
> 1..33
> ok 1 # skip abc
> ok 2 # skip Befunge
> ok 3 # skip bf
> ok 4 # skip bf
> ok 5 # skip bf
> ok 6 # skip blizkost
> ok 7 # skip Cardinal
> ok 8 # skip ChitChat
> ok 9 # skip .NET
> ok 10 # skip EcmaScript
> ok 11 # skip fun
> ok 12 # skip fun
> ok 13 # skip gil
> ok 14 # skip HQ9Plus
> ok 15 # skip Lisp
> ok 16 # skip LOLCODE
> ok 17 # skip Lua
> ok 18 # skip m4
> ok 19 # skip Markdown
> ok 20 # skip matrixy
> ok 21 # skip Paraplegic
> ok 22 # skip Pheme
> ok 23 # skip Pipp
> ok 24 # skip porcupine
> ok 25 # skip primitivearc
> ok 26 # skip Punie
> ok 27 # skip Pynie
> ok 28 # skip Rakudo
> ok 29 # skip Shakespeare
> ok 30 # skip steme
> ok 31 # skip Squaak
> ok 32 # skip unlambda
> ok 33 # skip WMLScript
>
> Wow! Awesome!
>
> Now, ISTR that once upon a time a lot of toy languages had Parrot
> implementations and lived in our repository.  Well they're not there any
> more.  Which leads to the question:  What purpose, if any, does this program
> serve?
>
> If no one can articulate a good reason for retaining it, out it goes!
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> kid51
>
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