On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot
0.4.16, "A
Farewell to Alex." Parrot (http://parrotcode.org/) is
a virtual
machine aimed at running all dynamic languages.
Parrot 0.4.16 can be obtained via CPAN (soon), or follow the
download
instructions at http://parrotcode.
org/source.html. For those who would
like to develop on Parrot, or help develop Parrot itself, we
recommend
using Subversion or SVK on the source code repository to get
the
latest and best Parrot code.
Parrot 0.4.16 News:
- Implementation:
+ Performed code review on every PMC
+ Modified PMC code generation to use Storable, reducing
compile times
+ Added a makefile target to generate test coverage data of
C sources
- Languages:
+ NQP: added lists, for loops, operators, comparison and
multiplicative operators
+ Announced Kea-CL, Kea Common Lisp, an ANSI Common Lisp
implementation
The repository is available at https://rg
rjr.dyndns.org/svn/kea-cl/trunk/
- Documentation
+ PDD17 "PMCs" - draft approved, the design is
complete
+ Added more PIR tutorials, see
examples/tutorial/00_README.pod
- Miscellaneous:
+ Many bugfixes, enhancements, documentation, and coding
standard updates
+ Deprecated PMC constants and other crufty syntax, see
DEPRECATED.pod
+ Improved icc compiler compatibility for error line
reporting
Thanks to all our contributors for making this possible, and
our
sponsors for supporting this project.
Enjoy!
~jerry
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