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Name
  Alberto Simões

Email
  ambs@cpan.org

Project
  P-LISS - A Parrot targeted LISS Compiler

Synopsis
  To implement a compiler of LISS (Language of Integers, Sets and
  Sequences) targeted to the Parrot Vitual Machine

Benefits to the Perl Community
  - connecting parrot to the academic world
  - Parrot testing
  - development of a language to teach programming

Deliverables
  A LISS Compiler with tests, full documentation of the language and 
  its grammar. A set of examples and probably a tutorial.

Project Details
  LISS is a language developed by the group of specification and
  language processing of the Universidade do Minho in Braga, Portugal.
  It is intended to be simple to teach students how to program.

  LISS grammar already exists and an interpreter will be probably
  built meanwhile. The idea is to create a compiler for LISS, written
  in any portable language (we would like to make it usable in all
  three main platforms -- Windows, Mac OS and Linux) targeting LISS
  into Parrot.

Project Schedule

  This project should be completed in two or three months (depending
  on the evolution of Parrot and the knowledge of the programmer).

  Milestones include: create a parser, write tests, generate code,
  write documentation.

Bio

  I am a PhD student at Universidade do Minho, member of the group who
  developed LISS, but not directly related to it. Meanwhile, I've been
  a contributor to Parrot, and thus, I am in the middle of the two world.
  Also, I have easy contact with the creators of LISS and Leopold Toetch
  who, I think, would help me mentoring the student in case of need.