Introduction to Parrot
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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
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chromatic x
Onyx Neon Inc.- Website: http://www.modernperlbooks.com/
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. Along the way, he’s picked up some practical experience about what to do and what not to do with project management.
He is the publisher of Onyx Neon Press, focusing on producing great books about software, technology, and modern living. In his spare time, he also writes novels.
Sessions
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- Title: Project Management Should be Boring!
- Track: Cooking
- Room: Marquam
- Time: 3:50 – 4:35pm
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Excerpt:
Many people see project management as the art of trying to please everyone and pleasing no one, while trying not to go too far over deadline and too far over budget. It doesn’t have to be that way. Good project management can be so predictable and reliable that it’s almost boring. Here’s what works in real projects.
- Speakers: chromatic x
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- Title: Introduction to Parrot
- Track: Hacks
- Room: Morrison
- Time: 10:00 – 10:45am
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Excerpt:
This talk briefly explains the overall architecture of Parrot and teaches the skills needed to get started hacking in Parrot.
- Speakers: chromatic x
