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New Parrot Version "Alex" Released

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the finally-a-bird-that-speaks-my-language dept.

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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  1. Re:Does anyone care? by vcv · · Score: 2, Informative

    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.

  2. Re:Does anyone care? by the+morgawr · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

    --
    The policy of the United States is worse than bad---it is insane. -- Ludwig von Mises, Economic Policy(1959)
  3. Re:Does anyone care? by tacocat · · Score: 3, Informative
    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.