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Perl 6 Compiler for Parrot Out

Posted by pudge on from the fly-away-little-bird dept.

BorrisYeltsin writes "The Parrot project has just released a functional compiler for Parrot. Almost all of the previous Apocalypses have been implemented as well as some other toys, including but not limited to: Ruby and Python parsers, BASIC and Scheme interpreters and a Forth compiler, the team are now working on Perl 6 regexes. Check it out at cvs.perl.org."

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  1. wow by bcrowell · · Score: 4, Insightful
    People had been saying for the last 6 months or a year, "How come progress on Parrot is so slow?? It looks like nothing's happening. Is the project dead?" The people involved in the project kept saying, "We need to get the design right. Once the design is right, the coding will go fast."

    Well they sure were right. Getting even a subset off Perl 6 to compile into Parrot is a huge accomplishment in such a short time. Wow!!

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