Parrot is a virtual machine designed to efficiently compile and execute bytecode for dynamic languages. Parrot currently hosts a variety of language implementations in various stages of completion, including Tcl, Javascript, Ruby, Lua, Scheme, PHP, Python, Perl 6, APL, and a .NET bytecode translator. Parrot is not about parrots, though we are rather fond of them for obvious reasons.
Submitted by Util on Wed, 06/19/2013 - 05:59
Obi-Wan: That boy is our last hope.
Yoda: No. There is another.
-- Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 5.5.0,
also known as "Salvadori's Fig Parrot". Parrot
is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages.
Submitted by Util on Wed, 05/22/2013 - 05:00
Jimi Hendrix, deceased, drugs.
Janis Joplin, deceased, alcohol.
Mama Cass, deceased, ham sandwich.
-- Austin Powers (making a list of friends from the Summer of Love)
On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 5.4.0,
also known as "Austin Parrot". Parrot
is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages, and currently
focusing on Perl 6.
Submitted by Util on Thu, 04/18/2013 - 20:36
We are stardust.
Billion year old carbon.
We are golden.
Caught in the devil's bargain
And we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.
(To some semblance of a garden.)
-- "Woodstock", by Joni Mitchell
On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 5.3.0,
also known as "W00tstock Parrot". Parrot
is a virtual machine aimed
at running all dynamic languages, and currently focusing on Perl 6.
Submitted by rurban on Fri, 04/12/2013 - 17:47
dukeleto: Happy to announce that @parrotvm will be mentoring students in #gsoc again this year! If you know awesome CS students, send them to me :)
We need mentors to sign up at
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/parrot
and project ideas to be collected/edited/reviewed at the "Ideas page".
Submitted by rurban on Sat, 12/08/2012 - 15:07
Debugging parrot strings were featured on the perl6 advent calendar, day 7. Something cool about Perl 6 every day, in December.
See http://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2012/12/07/day-7-mimebase64-on-encoded-strings/.
Shows how to debug into crazy string encoding problems, when you are not sure if the core implementation, the library, the spec or the tests are wrong. It turned out, that the library and the tests were wrong.
Submitted by brrt on Sun, 08/19/2012 - 22:05
Tomorrow is google's appointed 'firm pencils down' date. That seems like a good time to discuss the results of my work on mod_parrot so far.
mod_parrot is, as I have mentioned before, a two-layered system, with one half interfacing with apache (the module) and the other half with the interpreter and the compilers, the 'loader'. There is also a vital third component, the test system called pudding.
Submitted by brrt on Sat, 08/11/2012 - 17:40
This week I finally got arround to giving a new, fresh structure to the mod_parrot module code. I have complained, perhaps not loudly enough, about the various inadequacies of the old codebase, mostly with regards to extensibility. A cleanup was needed. As such, here is a walkthrough of the new structure, also serving as documentation.
Submitted by brrt on Fri, 08/03/2012 - 08:58
I for one am totally for whimsical blog titles, wouldn't you agree? In other news, after a lull of two weeks (codewise at least) I've finally started to work on mod_parrot again. The big (dis)?advantage from not working on code is that you start to think more of what you could do (and should have done), rather than what you have done.
As it turns out, I handle interpreters in a rather confused manner. My goal for the next two weeks is to fix that. First, let me describe what should be done to correctly run a script on an interpreter using mod_parrot:
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