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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."
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.
Steve sipped his magic water, brow furrowed, listening with his head cocked to the side to the blather the record execs across the table were vomiting at him. The barfing had been ongoing for the better part of three hours, and Steve was bored. As he set his water bottle down, his mind meandered from the meeting to more interesting things. Dammit, Steve thought, this is my boardroom. It's about time they heard my speech!
Beside Steve in his stupor sat none other than Phil Schiller, mulleted and wearing his typical denim button-down, and John Rubenstein who was wearing a blue polo, collar-up, with iPod headphones snaking up over his hairy chest and pouring out the front of his collar. Not only was John the Senior Vice President of the iPod division, he was also a member.
As the meeting droned on, Phil noted the glazed look in John and Steve's eyes. Without moving a muscle, Phil fiddled with something underneath the table and a random burst of music exploded from John's neck. Before John could look down, however, the music stopped. Steve hadn't noticed and Phil looked over at John and smirked. John wondered when Phil had managed to take his Shuffle.
Clearing his throat, Steve rose from his chair, interrupting the record executives across from him. They looked up at Steve's blue-jeaned form, surprised. They watched as Steve strutted to the corner of the room and grabbed a new bottle of water out of a mini-fridge, uncapped it, and took a sip. He looked around him at all the expectant eyes, like baby birds held captive in a nest, and smiled.
"I have a little something to share with you today," Steve said, the fire coming back to his eyes. "We all do, in fact, and we're really excited to present this special Stevenote with you today."
Phil looked over to John and rolled his eyes. Having endured one too many Stevenotes, he wasn't what could be called very excited in the least. Stultified was probably a better term for what Phil was experiencing at the moment. John too had witnessed several private mini-keynotes where Steve Jobs had paraded around a boardroom and drove a point relentlessly home for hours on end.
Phil and John shrugged, helpless, and turned to Steve. At least it wasn't record company rhetoric.
"Gentlemen, today we stand here over two years after Apple and the recording industry made downloading music easy and legal," Steve began, not missing a beat. "And in two years we've grown in a really impressive way, and we've got some really impressive numbers to show you."
Without a word, Steve yanked a small device that looked like a black iPod Shuffle out of his pocket and clicked a button. Silently, metal armor appeared from the walls and covered the windows. The lights dimmed behind them, and a solid metal panel slid shut with a sucking sound over the doorway. One wall was lit by an unseen projector and down-tempo electronica started playing softly in the background.
The record executives looked around, frenzied, not sure what had just happened. Some grabbed for papers and shoved them into briefcases while others swung around in their chairs feeling for something to grab onto. They began muttering, asking one another what was going on, nerves on edge. One exec took his mobile phone out and opened it. He looked hysterical in the dim light.
"You'll see that your mobile phone's signal is jammed in here, as are all other means of external communication. Bluetooth and WiFi don't work, and the Ethernet cables to your laptops have been cut," Steve said to the executives. "You're all alone in here. All alone with just me, Phil, John, and the numbers."
Phil and John shook their heads in dismay.
Steve wasted no time in barraging the executives in an ejaculation of numbers. Tracks available through the iTunes music store: 500 million. Pro
Fantastic troll, but the plural of penis is penes, not penises. Funny what you can learn from The Cthulhu Mythos in the AD&D world, no?
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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! ;)
Seriously, does anyone care about Perl any more? Everyone who's still foolish enough to use a "dynamic" (i.e. unsafe and unreliable) language has upgraded to Ruby, and everyone with an ounce of sense has switched to a safe, enterprise-ready statically typed language like C# or Haskell.
Ah yes, Haskell - the static language that proved the ultimate superiority of static languages when it was used to implement a working Perl6 interpreter, "Pugs", in just three days - while Parrot is still slow and buggy after ten years of development!
Seriously, unless you're stuck maintaining a huge and bloated legacy codebase like Slash, what reason is there to use Perl today? Truly, Perl is the COBOL of the 20th century.
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.
Best regards, A.C.
rather than Parrot. Pugs already targets two back-ends: Perl5 and Javascript. Parrot is a 5 year old project with no vision whatsoever. At least Pugs is grounded in reality. More importantly, Pugs is lead by uber-nice super-genius Autrijus Tang. He leads by example and welcomes suggestions from the community, unlike Parrot which lives in a development bubble.