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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 Util on Sat, 03/23/2013 - 17:59
I am not dead yet I can dance and I can sing
I am not dead yet I can do the Highland Fling
I am not dead yet No need to go to bed
No need to call the doctor Cause I'm not yet dead
-- Spamalot
On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 5.2.0,
also known as "Stuffed Parrot". Parrot
is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages.
Submitted by Util on Wed, 02/20/2013 - 06:39
Flat on the bunk again, he ran for his life. The Parrot stalked him
through the grey hours of morning, smoothing its fractal feathers,
shuffling itself slowly into clarity as though at the end of a
flashy film-dissolve, until at last his mind's eye had to acknowledge
a shape,
a shape,
a wink
-- From BLIT, a short story by David Langford
http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/blit.htmOn behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 5.1.0,
also known as "Zombie Parrot". Parrot
is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages.
Submitted by dukeleto on Wed, 01/23/2013 - 04:24
"No disassemble!"
-- Johnny Five
On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 5.0.0, also known
as "Johnny Five Alive". Parrot (http://parrot.org/) is a virtual machine aimed
at running all dynamic languages.
Parrot 5.0.0 consists of 175 new commits from six authors on the master branch
since the 4.11.0 release. Notably, this is the first stable release of Parrot
with thread support (via the Task PMC).
Submitted by rurban on Tue, 12/18/2012 - 22:09
On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 4.11.0, also known as "All together - Happy Birthday Lovebird". Parrot is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages.
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 rurban on Wed, 11/21/2012 - 22:14
On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 4.10.0, also known as "Red-eared Parakeet". Parrot is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages.
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