Introduction to Parrot

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Accepted Session
Short form
osb2009-0175
Scheduled: Thursday, June 18, 2009 from 10:00 – 10:45am in Morrison

Excerpt

This talk briefly explains the overall architecture of Parrot and teaches the skills needed to get started hacking in Parrot.

Description

Parrot hit 1.0 in March of this year. A virtual machine like no other, Parrot targets dynamic languages such as Python, Perl, PHP, and Ruby, it hosts a powerful suite of compiler tools tailored to dynamic languages and a next generation regular expression engine. This talk briefly explains the overall architecture of Parrot and teaches the skills needed to get started hacking in Parrot.

Tags

parrot, dynamic_languages, python

Speaker

  • chromatic x

    Onyx Neon Inc.

    Biography

    chromatic has a decade of experience contributing to free and open source software projects. He’s contributed to Perl 1, Perl 5, and Perl 6, and is a lead developer of the Parrot virtual machine. You may recognize him from the books Modern Perl, Modern Perl Testing, Parrot Developer’s Guide, How to Cook Forty Humans with Perl, and Defeating the Inevitable Zombie Apocalypse with Perl and Parrot.

    He is the publisher of Onyx Neon Press, focusing on producing great books about software, technology, and modern living. In his spare time, he writes novels and works on secret projects to improve the world.

    He does not advocate the inevitable zombie apocalypse, but forewarned is forearmed.

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