Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair / soyabean.com.au> wrote: > On Friday, January 17, 2003, 10:25:42 PM, Martin wrote: > >> So do it bottom-up :) Seriously, it'd help get smoe of the more useful >> cpan libraries ported. > > I thought we were benefiting from a lot of porting already. What are > some things you want to see? We are, but we could always do with more :) Personally, I'd like to see Ruby ports of a number of the Lingua-EN and Text- modules (Text::Balanced in particular). And in general, there's definitely some reasonably mindless transformation work involved in porting, and there's no reason a computer couldn't handle that part for us. martin