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Introduction to Parrot

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

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

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Speaker

  • chromatic x

    Onyx Neon Inc.

    Biography

    chromatic has over a decade of experience contributing to free and open source software projects. He’s contributed to Perl 1, Perl 5, Perl 6, and Parrot You may recognize him from myriad books, including Modern Perl.

    He is the publisher of Onyx Neon Press, which produces great books about software, technology, and modern living.

    He is also an entrepreneur involved in several projects, including Club Compy, a browser-based retro programming environment designed to introduce children of all ages to the joy of creating new things with computers.

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