Amethyst was my totally awesome idea for coding Perl with Ruby syntax.
I just moved it to github, fixed a bunch of bugs, added some examples and better command line interface.
It doesn't do anything much more complicated than this:
hello = ["Hello", "world!"]
puts(hello.join(", "))
ary = [2,10,30]
ary2 = ary.map{|x| x*3}
ary.each_with_index{|element, i|
print("* ", i, " => ", element, "\n")
}but it's meant to be fun, not useful.
There's some interesting magic inside and if you want to learn to write parsers with Parser::RecDescent it's not the worst place to start.
If someone wants to turn it into a real language (CoffeScript kind of real), go ahead, code any patches you want, and send me pull requests on github.
As I promised, I intend to migrate the rest of my old software to github and clean it up a bit in process.
