languages/pipp/docs/overview.pod

   1 # $Id$
   2
   3 =head1 NAME
   4
   5 Pipp - Introduction
   6
   7 =head1 What is Pipp?
   8
   9 Pipp is an incomplete implementation of PHP on Parrot.
  10
  11 =head1 Goals
  12
  13 Implement PHP.
  14
  15 Provide a side by side comparison of different parsing and tree transformation
  16 techniques.
  17
  18 Currently there are three variants:
  19
  20 =over
  21
  22 =item pct       - Parrot compiler toolkit
  23
  24 =item phc       - take XML output from phc and munge it with XSLT
  25
  26 =item antlr3    - ANTLR3, converted from languages/bc, started
  27
  28 =back
  29
  30 =head1 Status
  31
  32 36 out of 2692 tests in the PHP 5.2.0 test suite pass for the phc variant.
  33
  34 =head1 Dependencies
  35
  36 =over
  37
  38 =item phc
  39
  40 xsltproc and phc need to be in PATH.
  41
  42 =item antlr3
  43
  44 ANTLR3 generating Java code.
  45
  46 =back
  47
  48 =head1 Author
  49
  50 Bernhard Schmalhofer - <Bernhard.Schmalhofer@gmx.de>
  51
  52 =head1 SEE ALSO
  53
  54 =over 4
  55
  56 =item L<http://www.perlfoundation.org/parrot/index.cgi?pipp>
  57
  58 =item L<http://phpcompiler.org/>
  59
  60 =item L<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_Object_Model>
  61
  62 =item L<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_syntax_tree>
  63
  64 =item L<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XSLT>
  65
  66 =item L<http://search.cpan.org/dist/parrot/docs/glossary.pod>
  67
  68 =item L<http://perl.overmeer.net/xml-compile/>
  69
  70 =item L<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plum-headed_parakeet>
  71
  72 =item L<http://www.parrotcode.org/docs/compiler_tools.html>
  73
  74 =item L<http://www.antlr.org/v3/index.html>
  75
  76 =back
  77
  78 =cut