[Parseperl-discuss] New member

[nadim <na...@kh...>]

Hi, I thought I'd present myself quickly and why I joined.

I'm nadim, (NKH on CPAN), I work as sytem architect in a telecom company in 
Sweden. I'm frustrated because I can't program so I do perl to calm my 
nerves. Sometimes lots of it.

I wanted to take sometime from my build system project so I decided to revive 
the editor project. I've been writting editors for quite a long time. Some 
have used perl. I've never taken the time to seriously write an editor in 
perl only but I have a lots I can refactor.

After the debate on the extremeperl, which I follow but not participate in, I 
decide the time was right as there's quite a few people working on this area 
right now. Ebug, PPI, gtk-perl, ...

Kaare Rasmusen and I have started Text::Editor::Vip which  aims at writting a 
text editor in perl that should be platform independant and fun to use. The 
main goal is supporting perl but other languages too.

We hope this will be the component of choice for an IDE (Matisse's IDE). We 
made a release a few days ago and things are going fine here on my computer.

My previous editor had a rather complete perl parser that I used for coloring. 
It's written in flex and goes through some post processing to be integrated 
in a C++ app. We have the choice of using that or, maybe, PPI. The 
lexer/hilighter is not part of the editor but an external component so it 
should be easy to go from one to the other.

In any case, Vip might be a good test bed for PPI.

Cheers, Nadim.