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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. Re:Perl 6 reference implementation by outZider · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Surprisingly. The idea is to do a full language specification, so there can be many implementations of a language, similar to how Java (theoretically) works. This is also why there is an absolutely huge, yet incomplete, test suite. More tests are passing weekly, but more tests are being generated weekly.

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  2. Re:Compiler for Perl? by hardburn · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Perl 5 isn't really bytecode at all. It basically just walks the parse tree directly.

    Perl 6/Parrot is bytecode just as those from Python or Java have come to expect. Perl 5 could be reimplemented this way, but nobody seems to want to bother.

    If your goal is to obfuscate your code to prevent people from copying it, please give up.

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