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Parrot 0.1.1 "Poicephalus" Released

rafael on 2004-10-12T15:40:00

Will Coleda writes: "On behalf of the Parrot team I'm proud to announce the Parrot 0.1.1 release", which is code-named Poicephalus.

Read below for the details of the announcement.

Parrot 0.1.1 is an intermediate release with tons of updates and fixes.

  • Python support: Parrot runs 4/7 of the pie-thon test suite
  • Better OS support: more platforms, compilers, OS functions
  • Improved PIR syntax for method calls and = assignment
  • Dynamic loading reworked including a "make install" target
  • MMD - multi method dispatch for binary vtable methods
  • Library improvement and cleanup
  • BigInt, Complex, *Array, Slice, Enumerate, None PMC classes
  • IA64 and hppa JIT supprt
  • Tons of fixes, improvements, new tests, and documentation updates.

A lot is unfinished and keeps changing. Nethertheless Parrot is stable and usable at the surface, while internals are moving.

After some pause you can grab it from http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/L/LT/LTOETSCH/parrot-0.1.1.tar.gz or
just get the latest and best from CVS by following the directions at http://dev.perl.org/cvs/.

Turn your web browser towards parrotcode.org for more information about Parrot, get involved, and:

Have fun!

leo

So whatever happened to perl 6?

KLB on 2004-10-12T22:07:56

I was really excited about Perl 6 like two years ago when everyone was making a big deal about it. Except then everything went absolutely quiet. Is Perl 6 really any further along than it was two years ago? Do they even have the language finalized yet? Do they have anything to show for it but Parrot?

Re:So whatever happened to perl 6?

KLB on 2004-10-13T09:04:45

What a curious concept - 'finalized'. I think they're just waiting for Perl 5 reach an ISO standard before finalizing.

Re:So whatever happened to perl 6?

KLB on 2004-10-13T13:04:44

See dev.perl.org/perl6. Read “This Week in Perl 6” weekly summaries by Piers Cawley to have some idea on how’s the project been going in the last two years.

Re:So whatever happened to perl 6?

KLB on 2004-10-13T21:46:37

Thanks.

Inline::Parrot

autrijus on 2004-10-13T00:51:07

I'm having too much fun with Inline::Parrot and Poicephalus. It eases the entry barrier on using Parrot in real-world programming, and imho should really be published on CPAN. :-)

Re:Inline::Parrot

mspringer on 2004-11-06T18:59:29

I am enjoying this release also. Much easier to use.

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Already slashdotted!

KLB on 2004-10-14T00:33:08

The story was posted on Slashdot/a> with many interesting comments (over 100 so far!).