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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: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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