perl6 and Parrot 0.5.2 Released

mAriuZ writes "Bob Rogers just released Parrot 0.5.2. This monthly release includes a couple of interesting new features. First, we've bundled Patrick Michaud's Rakudo (thats the implementation of Perl 6 on Parrot) such that you can type make perl6 on Unixy platforms and make perl6.exe on Windows and get a working standalone Perl 6 binary. This is experimental and we hope to iron out some installation and deployment issues by next months release, but it was important to demonstrate our progress. The second new feature is a toolkit for starting your own compiler. Max Mohun built a prototype several months ago, and we've added a stripped-down version for now that builds the skeleton of a compiler for you using the Parrot Compiler Tools. I mentioned the LOLCODE compiler in What the Perl 6 and Parrot Hackers Did on Their Christmas Vacation; this is how Simon and Company were able to get LOLCODE up and running so quickly."

Comments

Re:I'm sorry, but...

[Wiseman1024]

If they want to be taken seriously (by me, anyway), they should at least be consistent. Ever thought that I may be an environmentalist because I'm not stupid enough to destroy what lets me and everything I love or like live? Or you prefer to find yourself an excuse to, despite being atheist, be a polluting, gas-wasting redneck?

Being "religious" doesn't mean anything. Where one chooses to put one's faith is, and no, it's not the same thing. Yes, it means to have blind, irrational beliefs, which, 99% of the time, are even contradictory and illogical. That says something.

After that, remember that believing in Evolution requires that one be worse at math than one thinks he is, and it also requires that one have more faith than the much-maligned Christian You don't understand what a theory is about, and you don't seem to understand belief either. Let's see what you say when somebody comes up with a new theory that works better than the current one (and no, creationism is not even valid theory material). You are trying too hard to be a believer; why not just join Scientology?

I've yet to see anyone prove to me that my faith is misguided Here's the first indicator that something is going wrong:

1. It's faith

*Any* faith is misguided. You may think something probable, work with a theory, build new premises upon reasoning on existing ones (and remember to carry, add and multiply probabilities if you're not basing on facts!), or just play what-if, but blindly believing on something "just cuz", "just cuz it's nice", "just cuz lotsa ppl think so" or "just cuz there has to be sumthin lool" is not going to help anything or anyone.

But to each their own. I'm equipped with a brain so I like using it and refuse to accept things blindly and irrationally.

Yeah, but Python 3000 went alpha last August.

[L. J. Beauregard]

Neener neener neener.