pombredanne/pseudon-perl

a perl to pseudon transpiler

#pseudon-perl

a perl to pseudon translator

Pseudon is a dynamic language intertranspiler: it can translate a subset of each supported language to a any of the others.

This perl to pseudon translator would add automatic support for

• perl to ruby
• perl to javascript
• perl to python
• perl to any other pseudon-supported language

pseudon compiler

maturity

prototypical stage, perl can't be really parsed in a normal humanish way, so we'll need some asumptions/magic about the subset we'll be using

supported subset

pseudon supports a very clear and somehow limited subset of a language:

• basic types: integer, float, string, boolean, nil
• lists
• dicts
• standard library methods for the basic types
• classes (only as collection of instance methods, no static/metaprogramming supported)

why

Supporting full-blown Perl to Ruby auto translation is hard. However often we need to

• translate/support some algorithms in different languages
• translate/support some text/data processing tool in different languages
• generate code for the same task/algorithm in different languages

Often that code is(or can be) expressed in very similar way, with similar constructs and basic types and data structures. On that level a lot of dynamic languages are very similar and the only real difference is syntax and methods api. That's a feasible task for automatic translation and actually the existance of pseudon is to fullfill a need of another existing project.

You can almost think of it in a "~json-for-algorithms" way: we express our code with standard basic types, collections and simple classes and we can translate to a common format(pseudon code) and using it as a middle ground between each supported language