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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.

  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: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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