New Parrot Version "Alex" Released

dogma01 writes "Parrot the virtual machine for Perl6 and other dynamic languages has released version 0.3.0. If interested you can also help support Parrot development by donating to The Perl Foundation or by getting involved with development."

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obligatory grammar nazism

[Anonymous Coward]

Parrot the virtual machine for Perl6 and other dynamic languages has released version 0.3.0.

In English, we separate appositives from the associated noun and the rest of the sentence using commas, not nothing.*

If interested you can also help support Parrot development by donating to The Perl Foundation or by getting involved with development.

In English, we separate the clauses of a complex sentence with a comma.*

Please, do not fear the comma. She is your friend.

* Yes, there are exceptions to every rule. These are not any of those cases.

Re:obligatory grammar nazism

[Bastian]

This is perl-land. Punctuation is always optional in perl-land.

Re:obligatory grammar nazism

[Maxhrk]

yeah it is optional in the perl-land which means I dont have to use the period to end the sentence or use single quote for a word dont

Re:obligatory grammar nazism

[RAMMS EIN]

``Punctuation is always optional in perl-land.''

No, it's not. In Perl, you have to write semicolons to separate statements, braces for loop constructs (which includes if and unless) (unless the loop construct goes after a statement), commas to separate arguments, and sometimes parentheses.

Donations?

[HRbnjR]

Maybe we should take donations to buy the Perl camel a bigger hump, so it doesn't run out of water waiting for a stable Parrot release! ;)

Re:Donations?

[jd]

The problem is, it's a Dromedary. (Only has one hump.) For development cycles, you really need a Bactrian camel. The prehistoric Camel of North America was about the size of a rabbit, which would make it perfect for embedded systems.

Re:Does anyone care?

[vcv]

perl is still heavily used by nix and is great for sysadmins. It's amazing for writing quick dirty scripts.

As far as using it on larger projects, well, some people just like perl.

Speed issues?

[Anonymous Cumshot]

Have they fixed the speed issues? Earlier versions worked but were uber-slow. The devs said that this would be fixed in a future release.

Re:Speed issues?

[Anonymous Coward]

No they weren't. IHBT, I know.

Re:Does anyone care?

[the morgawr]

Perl is like C: It works fine for large project if you use it correctly, but if you don't know what you are doing, you get crap. For example, the OpenBSD pkg_* tools are written in perl.

Re:Does anyone care?

[Anonymous Coward]

As the anonymous coward you're replying to, please accept my apologies for the post in question. I had a bad morning and couldn't resist the trolling opportunity. I apologise unreservedly for wasting your time with a worthless post; thank you for giving it a much more reasonable, and insightful, response than it deserved.

(BTW, if any mods happen to be on particularly large doses of crack today, and the original post happens to rise from -1, please could someone be sure knock it back down as quickly as possible? Thanks. Man, I wish I could just delete it...)

Re:Does anyone care?

[tacocat]

So is

• Slashdot
• debian packages
• Amazon

For starters. Perl is better than most people give it credit for. It just lacks a S&M (Sales and Marketing) team.

Re:Does anyone care?

[ajs]

"Perl is better than most people give it credit for. It just lacks a S&M (Sales and Marketing) team."

Perl lacks far more than that:

• Formal parameter lists
• Types
• A stable interpreter-free code generation capability
• Any kind of formal object declaration

Thankfully, these are all features which Perl 6 provides in spades. If you wish to get involved in Perl 6 development, download and compile pugs today!