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perl6 and Parrot 0.5.2 Released

Posted by Zonk on from the for-camels-with-time-on-their-hands dept.

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."

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  1. All things being equal... by Besna · · Score: -1, Troll

    That's key. Look--95% of Mormons voted for Romney. If they can find it so important--why the hell can't we atheists? Grow backbones, geeks.

  2. PERL 6 AS SHITTY AS PERL 5 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    God damn piece of shit!

  3. BFD? by brasspen · · Score: -1, Troll

    Does this matter? Did anyone think this language had room to evolve? Isn't Perl just for legacy code now? Aren't new people learning Python or Ruby, and aren't those better choices? 1995 is calling. It wants its scripting language back.

  4. YUO FAIL IT. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    it aatempts to Reciprocating