Punie
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Punie is a compiler created as a test case for the Parrot virtual machine. Its goal is to compile Perl v1 code and thereby exercise Parrot's compiler tools.
[edit] Status
The project is championed by Allison Randal. She reports that "Punie currently only parses and compiles the single statement to print a single digit". However, according to her journal, it can now handle simple conditionals and statements involving operator precedence. For example, the following statement currently parses and compiles correctly:
if (42 + 11) {
print 1 - 2, "\n", 7 - 1, "\n";
}
[edit] Name
The name Punie is a pun on the Ponie project (an implementation of Perl 5 running on Parrot), on "uni" meaning "1" (Perl 1), and on "puny" meaning something small. The name was first suggested for an implementation of Perl 1 on Parrot by Allison Randal and chromatic in a late-night hacking session in August 2003. It narrowly missed being named Penie.
