Changes between Version 23 and Version 24 of GoogleCodeIn2010Tasks

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10/29/10 22:50:18 (11 years ago)
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    7979Background: Perl 5, readup on pir 
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    81 ''Details'': A lot of our tests are still written in perl5 or a combination of perl5 with pir in CODE/OUTPUT blocks.  Ultimately we would like to get rid of any dependency on perl5.  We will put forward a list of tests that still need converting and set them up as a tasks with one or more tests to be converted. 
     81''Details'': Some of our test files generate PIR (Parrot Intermediate Representation) files from within perl5 code.  This also tends to generate a lot of files (that later have to be removed, when make clean/realclean is run). It would be better if these test files were written directly in PIR.  Some progress has been made in this area but there is a lot left to be done. 
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    8383This would give the student a reasonable introduction to parrot and be useful in getting a lot of tests converted. 
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     85A tutorial and examples would be provided. 
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    8587A possible (ungraded at the moment) list of tests that could be converted each of which could be a task: