Parrot + R

[Jay Emerson]

I should note that this is really, really experimental, sort of
proof-of-concept.  It isn't an effort intended to duplicate or replace
the R Project... for reasons (beyond the scope of this email) that
would be almost impossible.  A minimalist implementation would be
pretty cool, though, and a sense of humor is essential.

I'll be working fairly hard on this over the next month and will
likely post "how-to" question on the Parrot users list.  Please
forgive me in advance for 'stupid questions' -- but this may be
necessary.  I find myself spinning my wheels on little things, and
even if I vaguely remember something in the docs I can't always find
it or it isn't quite what I need.

Like: in NQP, how do I find the length of @anarray ?  Does the answer
to this require knowledge of the type of the array (fixed versus
resizable, integer versus float)?

Many thanks, and I hope at least having an additional person trying to
build a language will provide some helpful feedback.

Jay

On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Jonathan "Duke" Leto <jonathan at leto.net> wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> I have attached some slides that Jay Emerson has sent me that relate to
> building a new implementation of R on top of Parrot.
>
> This is exciting stuff!
>
> He tells me that the 'Q' language idea has been abandoned and currently they
> are coming up with Not Quite R. Doesn't that feel familiar?
>
> Please consider helping this effort if you are looking for something to hack
> on. I will post more details when there is a publicly available code repo.
>
> Duke
>
>
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-- 
John W. Emerson (Jay)
Associate Professor of Statistics
Department of Statistics
Yale University
http://www.stat.yale.edu/~jay