GSoC 2011

[Ben Batha]

To whom it may concern:

I am an undergraduate at the University of Rochester, and I would be interested in working on a project that Parrot is offering. A couple of the projects on the wiki piqued my interest and I was wondering if I could get a little more information on them. 

The first and most interesting project to me was the Python3 compiler. I have begun looking at some resources on the web; the Pypy project, the Parrot PIR documentation, and of course the Python language reference. Are there any other sources that you would recommend beyond these, to get familiar with the goals of the project? Additionally, what is the scope of the compiler, e.g. will it use Python's standard libraries or will these be implemented by myself or by someone else at a latter date? 

I was also interested in the Java compiler and had similar questions about starting resources. Specifically I was wondering what language was intended for the Java on Parrot project to be written in?

For some more background information on myself here is a list of courses that I have taken:
Programming Language Design and Implementation, this covered the design of compiler front ends and basics of optimization. In this class I wrote a compiler for C.
Computation and Formal Systems, 
Data Structures and Algorithms
Artificial Intelligence
Discrete Math
Linear Algebra & Differential Equations
Calculus I & II


Thanks, 

Ben Batha

bbatha at u.rochester.edu
Computer Science
University of Rochester





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