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Parrot 1.0.0 Released

Posted by timothy on from the take-a-beak dept.

outZider writes "Parrot 1.0.0 was released last night! The release of Parrot 1.0 provides the first "stable" release to developers, with a supportable, stable API for language developers to build from. For those who don't know, Parrot is a virtual machine for dynamic languages like Perl, PHP, Python, and Ruby, and is best known as the virtual machine for Rakudo, the reference implementation of Perl 6."

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  1. Lord of the Bytecodes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    One Bytecode to rule them all, One Bytecode to describe them, One Bytecode to bring them all and in the OS bind them.

    1. Re:Lord of the Bytecodes by Yvan256 · · Score: 1, Funny

      And that bytecode is.... 42.

  2. Slashdotted parrot by davidwr · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'll tell you what's wrong with it, my lad. 'E's slashdotted, that's what's wrong with it!

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    1. Re:Slashdotted parrot by Yvan256 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Not it's not! It's just swapping!

    2. Re:Slashdotted parrot by QRDeNameland · · Score: 3, Funny

      It's pining for the DWORDs!

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  3. Re:Down too?! by DragonWriter · · Score: 2, Funny

    Umm is it me or has the internet been slashdotted?!

    Probably; that usually happens when someone posts a link to the internet on Slashdot. Someone really needs to update the server for the internet.

  4. Parrot 1.0.0 Released by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Parrot 1.0.0 was released last night! The release of Parrot 1.0 provides the first "stable" release to developers, with a supportable, stable API for language developers to build from. For those who don't know, Parrot is a virtual machine for dynamic languages like Perl, PHP, Python, and Ruby, and is best known as the virtual machine for Rakudo, the reference implementation of Perl 6.

    SQUAWK! On topic!

    1. Re:Parrot 1.0.0 Released by grcumb · · Score: 2, Funny

      SQUAWK! On topic!

      For god's sake, someone nail his feet to the pedestal.

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  5. Re:Compiler for Perl? by drinkypoo · · Score: 3, Funny

    Slightly off topic: Is there a compiler for Perl, that is not based on bytecode, and therefore is difficult to decompile?

    I thought perl source was considered sufficiently obfuscated that it was safe from reverse-engineering in source form. Why on Earth would you want to do something like this anyway?

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  6. Re:From the Release Announcement by dkleinsc · · Score: 2, Funny

    When we all know the real announcement ought to have been "Brawk! Ready to sail"

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