Summer of Code

acme on 2005-07-25T10:27:05

The Perl Foundation took part in Google's Summer of Code program and managed to get 8 projects funded. This journal entry is a summary for interviews I conducted about them:

• A Generational, Thread-Aware GC for Parrot by Alexandre Buisse
• BitTorrent Peer Library For Perl by Josh McAdams
• Compiler/Optimizer Improvements to Parrot by Curtis Rawls
• Extended Type Inference System for Perl 5 by Gary Jackson
  
  
• Open Sourcing Perl/Java Integration by David Rusek
• Refactor Pirate so that the intermediate code emitter is independent of the Python parse tree (AST) by Curtis Hall
• Perl Megadistro by David Buchman
• WWW:Kontent - A Perl 6 Content Management System by Brent Royal-Gordon

Updated: added Curtis Hall's interview

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Arrrrrr vs Polly want a cracker

Beatnik on 2005-07-25T11:00:13

Pirate or Parrot?

Re:Arrrrrr vs Polly want a cracker

jmm on 2005-07-25T22:14:12

Pirate = Python on Parrot.

Re:Arrrrrr vs Polly want a cracker

acme on 2005-07-25T22:30:01

An interview is now available on the Pirate grant