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Parrot 0.1.1 'Poicephalus' Released
Pan T. Hose writes "The long awaited release of Parrot 0.1.1 "Poicephalus" has been finally announced on perl.perl6.internals newsgroup and perl6-internals mailing list simultaneously by Leopold Toetsch followed by an announcement on use Perl by Will Coleda and now also on Slashdot." (Read on for a list of changes since the last release, as well as a number of useful links.)
Pan T. Hose continues "The most important changes since the previous version 0.1.0 (code-named 'Leaping Kakapo' and
released in February) are:
- Python support: Parrot runs 4/7 of the pie-thon test suite
- Better OS support: more platforms, compilers, OS functions
- Improved PIR syntax for method calls and <op>= assignment
- Dynamic loading reworked including a "make install" target
- MMD - multi method dispatch for binary vtable methods
- Library improvement and cleanup
- BigInt, Complex, *Array, Slice, Enumerate, None PMC classes
- IA64 and hppa JIT support
- Tons of fixes, improvements, new tests, and documentation updates
when it's version 1.
"Poicephalus" is Latin for PenisBird
Isn't there already a New York plunger company named something like this?
Intolerance for ambiguity is the mark of the authoritarian personality.
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